Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 142
... Parliament had reason to rejoice that an irreversible law and an impassable barrier pro- tected them from the valour and ... Commons has been fully and most appropriately repaid . The House of Wentworth has since that time been as much ...
... Parliament had reason to rejoice that an irreversible law and an impassable barrier pro- tected them from the valour and ... Commons has been fully and most appropriately repaid . The House of Wentworth has since that time been as much ...
Page 146
... House of Commons would have given him a fair chance of retrieving the public confidence . Such was the opinion of Clarendon . He dis- tinctly states that the fury of opposition had abated , that a reaction had begun to take place , that ...
... House of Commons would have given him a fair chance of retrieving the public confidence . Such was the opinion of Clarendon . He dis- tinctly states that the fury of opposition had abated , that a reaction had begun to take place , that ...
Page 149
... House of Commons , Falkland , Colepepper , and Hyde , that he would take no measure in which that House was con- cerned , without consulting them . On this occasion he did not consult them . His conduct astonished them more than any ...
... House of Commons , Falkland , Colepepper , and Hyde , that he would take no measure in which that House was con- cerned , without consulting them . On this occasion he did not consult them . His conduct astonished them more than any ...
Page 158
... Commons as a stifler of the Popish Plot , and by the King as an accomplice in the Rye - House Plot ; and that , if he had escaped being hanged , first by Scroggs , and then by Jefferies 158 HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY .
... Commons as a stifler of the Popish Plot , and by the King as an accomplice in the Rye - House Plot ; and that , if he had escaped being hanged , first by Scroggs , and then by Jefferies 158 HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY .
Page 172
... House of Lords out of the constitution , to exclude members of the House of Commons by force , to make a new crime , a new tribunal , a new mode of procedure . The whole legis- lative and judicial systems were trampled down for the pur ...
... House of Lords out of the constitution , to exclude members of the House of Commons by force , to make a new crime , a new tribunal , a new mode of procedure . The whole legis- lative and judicial systems were trampled down for the pur ...
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