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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… opposed his admission, urging that he had not sowed his wild oats. He replied, 'if I have not, I may sow them in the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… will have but few chapmen. As to sending them amongst the wild beasts and birds in Ireland for satisfaction, it is but …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… justify myself. I had better have been torn in pieces by wild horses, than have endured this great torment. That had …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Some private congregations would be torn in pieces with wild horses, rather than read this Declaration. Sir James Mac …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… of civilization and equal government over the late "wild savannahs and boundless woods" of the Anglo-American …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… of it. It is to turn the people of England into wild beasts. It is too long time to keep the commoners out, … to the people by this Bill. It is not to turn men into wild beasts, or to make wild beasts men; but to make wild men tame men; to restrain …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… back the spring lock, and in the seat set a basket of wild-fire, made up of all combustibles, as tar, pitch, tow, … House, for, as one of the plotters confessed, it was such wild stuff it would have burned through stone walls. In this …