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He was chosen agayne this Parliament to serve in the same place, and in the beginninge of it, declared himselfe very sharply and sevearely against those exorbitances which had bene most grievous to the State; for he was so rigidd an observer of established Lawes and rules, that he could not indure the least breach or deviation from them, and thought no mischieve so intollerable, as the præsumption of ministers of

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

He ordered many packthreads to be let down, yet not a person offered to send up a petition, but instead thereof very bold demands, the redress of all their grievances, great immunities, the choice of their own governor, and other like exorbitances.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

"I have ever thought well of them," the chancellor said, rubbing his brow; "they are a sturdy race, and it were not well to wantonly provoke them; yet it is amazing that they should show themselves so forward, without so much as charging the commissioners with the least matter of crimes or exorbitances."

The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890

By such circumscriptions of pleasure the contemned philosophers reserved unto themselves the secret of delight, which the Helluos of those days lost in their exorbitances.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

Taking away the exorbitances, the remaining will be a new government, and no prelacy.

The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

_ But what, if the exorbitances be purged away, may not I, notwithstanding my oath, admit of a regulated prelacy?

The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

Charter; and therefore wee were all equally amazed to find that you demand a revokation of the Commission and Commissioners, without laying the least matter to their charge of crymes or exorbitances.

The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 Egerton Ryerson 1842

It was not then, as it is now, where the conscience has only power to disapprove, and to protest against the exorbitances of the passions; and rather to wish, than make them otherwise.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

"That it is not only not unlawful for the three estates to oppose their king in the exorbitances of his government, (of which they still are to be judges,) but that they basely and perfidiously desert the trust committed to them by God, if they connive at him, and do not to their utmost oppose and restrain him."

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

If they had but any true ingenuity, (a principle much lower than that of grace,) surely it would tie up their consciences from those infamous exorbitances that have given such deep gashes, such in curable wounds to their religion.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823