Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 35
... army , and a national debt , to the rule , however restricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The Long Parliament acted on the same principle , and is entitled to the same praise . They could not trust the King . He had no doubt passed ...
... army , and a national debt , to the rule , however restricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The Long Parliament acted on the same principle , and is entitled to the same praise . They could not trust the King . He had no doubt passed ...
Page 38
... 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 , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession 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 , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession of the ...
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... , they know not how to use their freedom . The natives of wine countries are generally sober . In climates where wine is a rarity intemperance abounds . A newly liberated people may be compared to a northern army encamped on MILTON . 39.
... , they know not how to use their freedom . The natives of wine countries are generally sober . In climates where wine is a rarity intemperance abounds . A newly liberated people may be compared to a northern army encamped on MILTON . 39.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. people may be compared to a northern army encamped on the Rhine or the Xeres . It is said that , when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to indulge without restraint in such a rare and ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. people may be compared to a northern army encamped on the Rhine or the Xeres . It is said that , when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to indulge without restraint in such a rare and ...
Page 42
... army in which a King is known to be posted is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had ...
... army in which a King is known to be posted is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had ...
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