Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... means intend to underrate or to palliate the crimes and excesses which , during the last gene- ration , were produced by the spirit of democracy . But , when we hear men zealous for the Protestant religion constantly represent the ...
... means intend to underrate or to palliate the crimes and excesses which , during the last gene- ration , were produced by the spirit of democracy . But , when we hear men zealous for the Protestant religion constantly represent the ...
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... means satisfactory . The power of the crown , it is said , was then at its height , and was in fact despotic . This solution , we own , seems to us to be no solution at all . It has long been the fashion , a fashion introduced by Mr ...
... means satisfactory . The power of the crown , it is said , was then at its height , and was in fact despotic . This solution , we own , seems to us to be no solution at all . It has long been the fashion , a fashion introduced by Mr ...
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... means of proclamations . She imprisoned her subjects without bringing them to a legal trial . Torture was often employed , in defiance of the laws of England , for the purpose of extorting confessions from those who were shut up in her ...
... means of proclamations . She imprisoned her subjects without bringing them to a legal trial . Torture was often employed , in defiance of the laws of England , for the purpose of extorting confessions from those who were shut up in her ...
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... means , and the only means , which she had at her command for carrying her decrees into execution , for resisting foreign enemies , and for crushing domestic treason . There was not a ward in the city , there was not a hundred in any ...
... means , and the only means , which she had at her command for carrying her decrees into execution , for resisting foreign enemies , and for crushing domestic treason . There was not a ward in the city , there was not a hundred in any ...
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... means to be misgoverned with impunity . The English in the sixteenth century were , beyond all doubt , a free people . They had not , indeed , the outward show of freedom ; but they had the reality . They had not as good a constitution ...
... means to be misgoverned with impunity . The English in the sixteenth century were , beyond all doubt , a free people . They had not , indeed , the outward show of freedom ; but they had the reality . They had not as good a constitution ...
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