Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 46
... ministers to ask for it . They abrogated some of the best laws passed in the first session of the Long Parliament- laws which Falkland had supported , and which Hyde had not opposed . They might probably have been induced to go further ...
... ministers to ask for it . They abrogated some of the best laws passed in the first session of the Long Parliament- laws which Falkland had supported , and which Hyde had not opposed . They might probably have been induced to go further ...
Page 53
... for his conscientious scru- ples , and for his feelings of natural affection , -who was ready to accept any ministers , to grant any guarantees to public liberty , but who could not find it in MACKINTOSHI'S HISTORY . 53 33.
... for his conscientious scru- ples , and for his feelings of natural affection , -who was ready to accept any ministers , to grant any guarantees to public liberty , but who could not find it in MACKINTOSHI'S HISTORY . 53 33.
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... minister of state , every person employed in the royal household , in the custom - house , in the post - office , in the excise , would have been a Catholic . The Catholics would have had a majority in the House of Lords , even if that ...
... minister of state , every person employed in the royal household , in the custom - house , in the post - office , in the excise , would have been a Catholic . The Catholics would have had a majority in the House of Lords , even if that ...
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... ministers , declared war , and concluded peace . No combination of the king and the Lords has ever been able to effect anything against the Lower House , backed by its constituents . Three or four times , indeed , the sovereign has been ...
... ministers , declared war , and concluded peace . No combination of the king and the Lords has ever been able to effect anything against the Lower House , backed by its constituents . Three or four times , indeed , the sovereign has been ...
Page 73
... ministers . We see villanies as black as ever were imputed to any prisoner at any bar , daily committed on the bench and in the jury - box . The worst of the bad acts which brought discredit on the old Parliaments of France , the ...
... ministers . We see villanies as black as ever were imputed to any prisoner at any bar , daily committed on the bench and in the jury - box . The worst of the bad acts which brought discredit on the old Parliaments of France , the ...
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