Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Page 28
... Sovereign and of the public . It was a loathsome herd , which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , grotesque monsters , half bestial half human , dropping with wine , bloated with gluttony , and reeling in ...
... Sovereign and of the public . It was a loathsome herd , which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , grotesque monsters , half bestial half human , dropping with wine , bloated with gluttony , and reeling in ...
Page 32
... sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Papist ; we say in name and pro- fession , because both Charles himself and his creature Laud , while they abjured the innocent badges of Popery , retained all its worst ...
... sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Papist ; we say in name and pro- fession , because both Charles himself and his creature Laud , while they abjured the innocent badges of Popery , retained all its worst ...
Page 34
... the breach of fundamental laws on the part of the sovereign justifies resistance . The question , then , is this ; Had Charles the First broken the fundamental laws of England ? No person can answer in the negative , unless he 34 MILTON .
... the breach of fundamental laws on the part of the sovereign justifies resistance . The question , then , is this ; Had Charles the First broken the fundamental laws of England ? No person can answer in the negative , unless he 34 MILTON .
Page 43
... Sovereign . If so , why not impeach Jefferies and retain James ? The person of a King is sacred . Was the person of James con sidered sacred at the Boyne ? To discharge can non against an army in which a King is known to be posted is to ...
... Sovereign . If so , why not impeach Jefferies and retain James ? The person of a King is sacred . Was the person of James con sidered sacred at the Boyne ? To discharge can non against an army in which a King is known to be posted is to ...
Page 67
... sovereigns were too imbecile to subdue it . The generous policy of Otho encouraged it . It might perhaps have been suppressed by a close coalition between the Church and the Empire . It was fostered and invigorated by their disputes ...
... sovereigns were too imbecile to subdue it . The generous policy of Otho encouraged it . It might perhaps have been suppressed by a close coalition between the Church and the Empire . It was fostered and invigorated by their disputes ...
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