Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth . Containing an Historical View of the Times in which he lived , and of the many eminent and illustrious Persons with whom he was connected ; with Extracts from his Private and Official ...
... England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth . Containing an Historical View of the Times in which he lived , and of the many eminent and illustrious Persons with whom he was connected ; with Extracts from his Private and Official ...
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... England like that fierce and bloody opposition which , in France , each of the religious factions in its turn offered to the government . We had neither a Coligny nor a Mayenne , neither a Moncontour nor an Ivry . No English city braved ...
... England like that fierce and bloody opposition which , in France , each of the religious factions in its turn offered to the government . We had neither a Coligny nor a Mayenne , neither a Moncontour nor an Ivry . No English city braved ...
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... England , commanded by the merchants and esquires of England . Thus , when intelligence arrived of the vast prepara- tions which Philip was making for the subjugation of the realm , the first person to whom the government thought of ...
... England , commanded by the merchants and esquires of England . Thus , when intelligence arrived of the vast prepara- tions which Philip was making for the subjugation of the realm , the first person to whom the government thought of ...
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... England in the sixteenth century was a monarchy of this kind . It is called an absolute monarchy , because little respect was paid by the Tudors to those institutions which we have been ac- customed to consider as the sole checks on the ...
... England in the sixteenth century was a monarchy of this kind . It is called an absolute monarchy , because little respect was paid by the Tudors to those institutions which we have been ac- customed to consider as the sole checks on the ...
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... that they should be the mild and paternal sovereigns of England . They were under the same restraints with regard to their people under which a military despot is placed with regard to his army . 20 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
... that they should be the mild and paternal sovereigns of England . They were under the same restraints with regard to their people under which a military despot is placed with regard to his army . 20 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
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