Critical and Historical Essays, 2: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernh. Tauchnitz Im., 1850 - 393 pages |
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... honour . But in the reign of James the First there was one short cut to the House of Lords . It was but to ask , to ... honours with which his family desired to see him invested , and attached himself to the party which was in opposition ...
... honour . But in the reign of James the First there was one short cut to the House of Lords . It was but to ask , to ... honours with which his family desired to see him invested , and attached himself to the party which was in opposition ...
Page 51
... honour and independence of the nation , and anxious only for the success of their own faction . We are utterly unable to see any distinction between the case of the Scotch invasion in 1640 , and the case of the Dutch invasion in 1688 ...
... honour and independence of the nation , and anxious only for the success of their own faction . We are utterly unable to see any distinction between the case of the Scotch invasion in 1640 , and the case of the Dutch invasion in 1688 ...
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... honour . A violent and sudden revulsion of feeling , both in the House and out of it , was the effect of the late proceedings of the King . The Opposition regained in a few hours all the ascendency which it had lost . The constitutional ...
... honour . A violent and sudden revulsion of feeling , both in the House and out of it , was the effect of the late proceedings of the King . The Opposition regained in a few hours all the ascendency which it had lost . The constitutional ...
Page 69
... honour could bind him , and that the only way to make him harmless was to make him powerless . The attack which the King had made on the five members was not merely irregular in manner . Even if the charges had been preferred legally ...
... honour could bind him , and that the only way to make him harmless was to make him powerless . The attack which the King had made on the five members was not merely irregular in manner . Even if the charges had been preferred legally ...
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... honour and esteem ; a man so religious , and of that prudence , judgment , temper , valour , and integrity , that he hath left few his like behind . " He had indeed left none his like behind him . There still remained , indeed , in his ...
... honour and esteem ; a man so religious , and of that prudence , judgment , temper , valour , and integrity , that he hath left few his like behind . " He had indeed left none his like behind him . There still remained , indeed , in his ...
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