Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 101
... Commons of England , and faithful stewards of their liberty and their wealth , to engage them for such causes in civil war , which both to liberty and to wealth is of all things the most hostile . Evil indeed must be the disease which ...
... Commons of England , and faithful stewards of their liberty and their wealth , to engage them for such causes in civil war , which both to liberty and to wealth is of all things the most hostile . Evil indeed must be the disease which ...
Page 102
... Commons to support the revels of Buckingham or the processions of Laud , he had assured them that , as he was a gentleman and a king , he would sacredly preserve their rights . He had pawned those solemn pledges , and pawned them again ...
... Commons to support the revels of Buckingham or the processions of Laud , he had assured them that , as he was a gentleman and a king , he would sacredly preserve their rights . He had pawned those solemn pledges , and pawned them again ...
Page 103
... Commons House of Parliament should be impeached of high treason at the bar of the Lords ; thereby violating both the trial by jury and the privileges of the House ; but , not content with breaking the law by his ministers , he went ...
... Commons House of Parliament should be impeached of high treason at the bar of the Lords ; thereby violating both the trial by jury and the privileges of the House ; but , not content with breaking the law by his ministers , he went ...
Page 108
... Commons as justly deserved as was that of Diomedes , who was devoured by those horses whom he had himself taught to feed on the flesh and blood of men ? How could they hope that others would respect laws which they had themselves ...
... Commons as justly deserved as was that of Diomedes , who was devoured by those horses whom he had himself taught to feed on the flesh and blood of men ? How could they hope that others would respect laws which they had themselves ...
Page 112
... Commons , but by a Venetian Council . 66 " If in his following rule he overstepped the laws , I pity rather than condemn him . He may be compared to that Mæandrius of Samos , of whom Herodotus saith , in his Thalia , that , wishing to ...
... Commons , but by a Venetian Council . 66 " If in his following rule he overstepped the laws , I pity rather than condemn him . He may be compared to that Mæandrius of Samos , of whom Herodotus saith , in his Thalia , that , wishing to ...
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