Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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... king's proclamation against vice and im- morality , that which , without any constitution , keeps rulers in awe , force , and the spirit to use it . Parlia- ments , it is true , were rarely held , and were not very respectfully treated ...
... king's proclamation against vice and im- morality , that which , without any constitution , keeps rulers in awe , force , and the spirit to use it . Parlia- ments , it is true , were rarely held , and were not very respectfully treated ...
Page 30
... King John and Henry the Eighth was surely no friend to papal supremacy . There is , we think , only one solution of ... Kings , who " feared the Lord , and served their graven images ; " like that of the Judaizing Christians who blended ...
... King John and Henry the Eighth was surely no friend to papal supremacy . There is , we think , only one solution of ... Kings , who " feared the Lord , and served their graven images ; " like that of the Judaizing Christians who blended ...
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... king . Never was there so consummate a master of what our James the First would have called king - craft , of all those arts which most advantageously display the merits of a prince , and most completely hide his defects . Though his ...
... king . Never was there so consummate a master of what our James the First would have called king - craft , of all those arts which most advantageously display the merits of a prince , and most completely hide his defects . Though his ...
Page 61
... kings existed for the good of the people , and not the people for the good of kings . Saint Simon is delighted with the ... king . Yet even this man , one of the most liberal men in France , was struck dumb with astonishment at hear- ing ...
... kings existed for the good of the people , and not the people for the good of kings . Saint Simon is delighted with the ... king . Yet even this man , one of the most liberal men in France , was struck dumb with astonishment at hear- ing ...
Page 75
... King's deer on their way to Parliament , or as their old rem- edy of scandalum magnatum . Yet we must acknowl- edge that , though our political opinions are by no means aristocratical , we always feel kindly disposed towards noble ...
... King's deer on their way to Parliament , or as their old rem- edy of scandalum magnatum . Yet we must acknowl- edge that , though our political opinions are by no means aristocratical , we always feel kindly disposed towards noble ...
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