Lord Macaulay's Essays: And Lays of Ancient RomeLongmans, Green, 1889 - 923 pages |
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Page 17
... Lords and Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the ...
... Lords and Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the ...
Page 64
... Lords show that the Judges were consulted . They answered , with one accord , that the articles on which the Earl was convicted , amounted to high treason . This judicial opinion , even if we suppose it to have been errone- ous , goes ...
... Lords show that the Judges were consulted . They answered , with one accord , that the articles on which the Earl was convicted , amounted to high treason . This judicial opinion , even if we suppose it to have been errone- ous , goes ...
Page 68
... Lord Digby , absurdly adopted by the King . And thus they save their client from the full penalty of his transgression , by entering a plea of guilty to the minor offence . To us his conduct appears at this day as at the time it ...
... Lord Digby , absurdly adopted by the King . And thus they save their client from the full penalty of his transgression , by entering a plea of guilty to the minor offence . To us his conduct appears at this day as at the time it ...
Page 69
... Lords refused to assume the unconstitutional office with which he attempted to invest them . And what was then his conduct ? He went , attended by hundreds of armed men , to seize the objects of his hatred in the House itself . The ...
... Lords refused to assume the unconstitutional office with which he attempted to invest them . And what was then his conduct ? He went , attended by hundreds of armed men , to seize the objects of his hatred in the House itself . The ...
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Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome (Classic Reprint) Thomas Babbington Macaulay No preview available - 2017 |
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