The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1866 |
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... sovereigns and their parliaments , and bound up together the rights of the people and the title of the reigning dynasty . I shall relate how the new settlement was , during many troubled years , successfully defended against foreign and ...
... sovereigns and their parliaments , and bound up together the rights of the people and the title of the reigning dynasty . I shall relate how the new settlement was , during many troubled years , successfully defended against foreign and ...
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... sovereign and the greatness of the nation which he rules , that almost every historian of England has expatiated with a sentiment of exultation on the power and splendour of her foreign masters , and has lamented the decay of that power ...
... sovereign and the greatness of the nation which he rules , that almost every historian of England has expatiated with a sentiment of exultation on the power and splendour of her foreign masters , and has lamented the decay of that power ...
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... sovereign , and peasants degraded to the level of the swine and oxen which they tended . The exorbitant power of the baron had been gradually reduced . The condition of the peasant had been gradually elevated . Between the aristocracy ...
... sovereign , and peasants degraded to the level of the swine and oxen which they tended . The exorbitant power of the baron had been gradually reduced . The condition of the peasant had been gradually elevated . Between the aristocracy ...
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... English was , from an early period , justly reputed the best . The prerogatives of the sovereign were undoubtedly extensive . The spirit of re- ligion and the spirit of chivalry concurred to exalt his 22 HISTORY OF ENGLAND ,
... English was , from an early period , justly reputed the best . The prerogatives of the sovereign were undoubtedly extensive . The spirit of re- ligion and the spirit of chivalry concurred to exalt his 22 HISTORY OF ENGLAND ,
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... sovereigns were in the habit of violating the three great principles by which the liberties . of the nation were ... sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties without limit . He was therefore competent to annul virtu ...
... sovereigns were in the habit of violating the three great principles by which the liberties . of the nation were ... sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties without limit . He was therefore competent to annul virtu ...
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