The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 2 |
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... sovereign of this country , acting in harmony with the legislature , must always have a great sway in the affairs of Christendom , and must also have an obvious interest in opposing the undue aggrandisement of any Continental potentate ...
... sovereign of this country , acting in harmony with the legislature , must always have a great sway in the affairs of Christendom , and must also have an obvious interest in opposing the undue aggrandisement of any Continental potentate ...
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... sovereign would be elected . Charles was for a time master . To gain Charles , therefore , was the Prince's first wish . In the summer of 1683 , almost at the moment at which the detection of the Rye House plot made the discom- fiture ...
... sovereign would be elected . Charles was for a time master . To gain Charles , therefore , was the Prince's first wish . In the summer of 1683 , almost at the moment at which the detection of the Rye House plot made the discom- fiture ...
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... sovereign of the provinces contained in the circle of Burgundy , and the King of Sweden as Duke of Pomerania . The con- federates declared that they had no intention to attack and no wish to offend any power , but that they were ...
... sovereign of the provinces contained in the circle of Burgundy , and the King of Sweden as Duke of Pomerania . The con- federates declared that they had no intention to attack and no wish to offend any power , but that they were ...
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... Sovereign , and of a determination to endure with patience whatever it might be his pleasure to inflict . The royalist knights and esquires who , through forty - five years of VII . war and faction , had stood so manfully 34 HISTORY OF ...
... Sovereign , and of a determination to endure with patience whatever it might be his pleasure to inflict . The royalist knights and esquires who , through forty - five years of VII . war and faction , had stood so manfully 34 HISTORY OF ...
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... Sovereign might , for special reasons of state , grant to individuals by name . exemptions from disabling statutes . That he could by one sweeping edict authorise all his subjects to disobey whole volumes of laws , no tribunal had ...
... Sovereign might , for special reasons of state , grant to individuals by name . exemptions from disabling statutes . That he could by one sweeping edict authorise all his subjects to disobey whole volumes of laws , no tribunal had ...
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