Critical and Historical Essays, 2: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernh. Tauchnitz Im., 1850 - 393 pages |
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Page 24
... prerogatives were acquiring strength at the expense of the nobility , two great revolutions took place , destined to be the parents of many revolutions , the invention of Printing , and the reformation of the Church . The immediate ...
... prerogatives were acquiring strength at the expense of the nobility , two great revolutions took place , destined to be the parents of many revolutions , the invention of Printing , and the reformation of the Church . The immediate ...
Page 26
... prerogative which it had recently acquired at the expense of the nobles and of the Pope . The faint beginnings of this memorable contest may be discerned early in the reign of Elizabeth . The conduct of her last Parliament made it clear ...
... prerogative which it had recently acquired at the expense of the nobles and of the Pope . The faint beginnings of this memorable contest may be discerned early in the reign of Elizabeth . The conduct of her last Parliament made it clear ...
Page 27
... prerogatives less tenaciously . He neither gave way gracefully to the advancing spirit of liberty nor took vigorous measures to stop it , but retreated before it with ludicrous haste , blustering and insulting as he retreated . The ...
... prerogatives less tenaciously . He neither gave way gracefully to the advancing spirit of liberty nor took vigorous measures to stop it , but retreated before it with ludicrous haste , blustering and insulting as he retreated . The ...
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... prerogative . He grudged to the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas even that measure of liberty which the most absolute of the Bourbons allowed to the Parliaments of France . In Ireland , where he stood in the place of the King ...
... prerogative . He grudged to the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas even that measure of liberty which the most absolute of the Bourbons allowed to the Parliaments of France . In Ireland , where he stood in the place of the King ...
Page 49
... prerogative of ship - money . Many years before , he had received five subsidies in consi- deration of his assent to the Petition of Right . By assenting to that petition , he had given up the right of levying ship- money , if he ever ...
... prerogative of ship - money . Many years before , he had received five subsidies in consi- deration of his assent to the Petition of Right . By assenting to that petition , he had given up the right of levying ship- money , if he ever ...
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