Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 1Belford, Clarke & Company, 1887 |
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Page 91
... reign , whenever he had need of the purses of his Commons to sup- port the revels of Buckingham or the processions of Laud , he had assured them that , as he was a gentleman and a king , he would sacredly preserve their rights . He had ...
... reign , whenever he had need of the purses of his Commons to sup- port the revels of Buckingham or the processions of Laud , he had assured them that , as he was a gentleman and a king , he would sacredly preserve their rights . He had ...
Page 94
... reign , he imitated those who had governed before him , I blame him not . To expect that kings will , of their own free choice , abridge their prerogative , were argument of but slender wisdom . Whatever , therefore , lawless , unjust ...
... reign , he imitated those who had governed before him , I blame him not . To expect that kings will , of their own free choice , abridge their prerogative , were argument of but slender wisdom . Whatever , therefore , lawless , unjust ...
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... reign the change took place , was the ablest of its kings . Yet the Spartan armies were frequently defeated in pitched battles . - an occurrence considered Impossible in the earlier ages of Greece . They are allowed to have fought most ...
... reign the change took place , was the ablest of its kings . Yet the Spartan armies were frequently defeated in pitched battles . - an occurrence considered Impossible in the earlier ages of Greece . They are allowed to have fought most ...
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... Reign of the Hundred Days . " BOOK I. THE poem commences , in form , with a solemn proposition of the subject . Then the muse is invoked to give the poet accurate information as to the causes of so terrible a com- motion . The answer to ...
... Reign of the Hundred Days . " BOOK I. THE poem commences , in form , with a solemn proposition of the subject . Then the muse is invoked to give the poet accurate information as to the causes of so terrible a com- motion . The answer to ...
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... reign of terror - the accursed Saturnalia of an accursed bondage . It is true that in Athens itself , where such convulsions were scarcely known , the condition of the higher orders was disagreeable ; that they were com- pelled to ...
... reign of terror - the accursed Saturnalia of an accursed bondage . It is true that in Athens itself , where such convulsions were scarcely known , the condition of the higher orders was disagreeable ; that they were com- pelled to ...
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