Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 38
... Strafford . They execrate the law- less violence of the army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their dis- tricts ; soldiers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts ...
... Strafford . They execrate the law- less violence of the army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their dis- tricts ; soldiers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts ...
Page 134
... Strafford was the first , and perhaps the greatest blow . The whole conduct of that celebrated man proved that he had formed a deliberate scheme to sub- vert the fundamental laws of England . Those parts of his correspondence which have ...
... Strafford was the first , and perhaps the greatest blow . The whole conduct of that celebrated man proved that he had formed a deliberate scheme to sub- vert the fundamental laws of England . Those parts of his correspondence which have ...
Page 135
... Strafford , however , recommends that , for taking the sense of a legal tribunal on a legal question , Hampden should be punished , and punished severely , " whipt , " says the insolent apostate , " whipt into his senses . If the rod ...
... Strafford , however , recommends that , for taking the sense of a legal tribunal on a legal question , Hampden should be punished , and punished severely , " whipt , " says the insolent apostate , " whipt into his senses . If the rod ...
Page 136
... Strafford meditated . His whole practice , from the day on which he sold himself to the court , was in strict con- formity to his theory . For his accomplices various excuses may be urged , ignorance , imbecility , religious bigotry ...
... Strafford meditated . His whole practice , from the day on which he sold himself to the court , was in strict con- formity to his theory . For his accomplices various excuses may be urged , ignorance , imbecility , religious bigotry ...
Page 137
... Strafford from the popular party con- tributed mainly to draw on him the hatred of his contem- poraries . It has since made him an object of peculiar interest to those whose lives have been spent , like his , in proving that there is no ...
... Strafford from the popular party con- tributed mainly to draw on him the hatred of his contem- poraries . It has since made him an object of peculiar interest to those whose lives have been spent , like his , in proving that there is no ...
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