Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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Page 33
... Commons , for confining men without bringing them to trial , for interfering with the liberty of parliamentary debate . All this may be true . But it is no good plea for her successors ; and for this plain reason , that they were her ...
... Commons , for confining men without bringing them to trial , for interfering with the liberty of parliamentary debate . All this may be true . But it is no good plea for her successors ; and for this plain reason , that they were her ...
Page 34
... his leading opponents . The country would have be- come more agitated than before . The next House of Commons would have been more unmanageable than that which preceded it . The tyrant would have agreed 34 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
... his leading opponents . The country would have be- come more agitated than before . The next House of Commons would have been more unmanageable than that which preceded it . The tyrant would have agreed 34 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
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... Commons could ad- dress her , took out of their mouths the words which they were about to utter in the name of the ... Commons ; and the Commons sent him in return the Grand Re- monstrance . We had intended to say something concerning ...
... Commons could ad- dress her , took out of their mouths the words which they were about to utter in the name of the ... Commons ; and the Commons sent him in return the Grand Re- monstrance . We had intended to say something concerning ...
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... Commons was with the King ; and the most vigorous preparations were made for war . Before the commencement of active hostilities Wil- liam was no more . But the Grand Alliance of the European Princes against the Bourbons was already ...
... Commons was with the King ; and the most vigorous preparations were made for war . Before the commencement of active hostilities Wil- liam was no more . But the Grand Alliance of the European Princes against the Bourbons was already ...
Page 133
... Commons , the extinction of Villanage , the separa- tion from the see of Rome , the expulsion of the Stuarts , the reform of the Representative System , are succes- sive stages , there have been , under some name or other , two sets of ...
... Commons , the extinction of Villanage , the separa- tion from the see of Rome , the expulsion of the Stuarts , the reform of the Representative System , are succes- sive stages , there have been , under some name or other , two sets of ...
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