Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... army . The authority of Elizabeth rested solely on the support of her people . Those who say that her power was absolute do not sufficiently consider in what her power consisted . Her power consisted in the willing obedience of her ...
... army . The authority of Elizabeth rested solely on the support of her people . Those who say that her power was absolute do not sufficiently consider in what her power consisted . Her power consisted in the willing obedience of her ...
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... army which could , by its superior arms and its superior skill , overawe . or vanquish the sturdy Commons of his realm , abounding in the native hardihood of Englishmen , and trained in the simple discipline of the militia . It has been ...
... army which could , by its superior arms and its superior skill , overawe . or vanquish the sturdy Commons of his realm , abounding in the native hardihood of Englishmen , and trained in the simple discipline of the militia . It has been ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. military despot is placed with regard to his army . They would have found it as dangerous to grind their subjects with cruel taxation as Nero would have found it to leave his prætorians unpaid ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. military despot is placed with regard to his army . They would have found it as dangerous to grind their subjects with cruel taxation as Nero would have found it to leave his prætorians unpaid ...
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... army , and whose power rests solely on the loyalty of his subjects , can continue for years to persecute a religion to which the majority of his subjects are sincerely attached . In fact , the Protestants did rise up against one sister ...
... army , and whose power rests solely on the loyalty of his subjects , can continue for years to persecute a religion to which the majority of his subjects are sincerely attached . In fact , the Protestants did rise up against one sister ...
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... his annual revenue amounted , in the season of his greatest power , to a sum near ten times as large as that which England yielded to Elizabeth . ་ He had a standing army of fifty thousand excellent THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN . 37.
... his annual revenue amounted , in the season of his greatest power , to a sum near ten times as large as that which England yielded to Elizabeth . ་ He had a standing army of fifty thousand excellent THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN . 37.
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