Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 42
... minister only ought to be responsible for the acts of the Sovereign . If so , why not impeach Jefferies and retain James ? The person of a King is sacred . Was the person of James considered sacred at the Boyne ? To discharge cannon ...
... minister only ought to be responsible for the acts of the Sovereign . If so , why not impeach Jefferies and retain James ? The person of a King is sacred . Was the person of James considered sacred at the Boyne ? To discharge cannon ...
Page 45
... ministers , and left to it the whole legislative authority , not even reserving to himself a veto on its enact- ments ; and he did not require that the chief magistracy should be hereditary in his family . Thus far , we think , if the ...
... ministers , and left to it the whole legislative authority , not even reserving to himself a veto on its enact- ments ; and he did not require that the chief magistracy should be hereditary in his family . Thus far , we think , if the ...
Page 97
... minister flew from place to place in order to superintend the execution of his design . The times were , in some respects , favourable to the experiment . The system of military tactics had undergone a great revolu- tion . The cavalry ...
... minister flew from place to place in order to superintend the execution of his design . The times were , in some respects , favourable to the experiment . The system of military tactics had undergone a great revolu- tion . The cavalry ...
Page 115
... minister who was as bad a representative of the system which has been christened after him as Becket of the spirit of the Gospel . On the other hand , the cause for which Hampden bled on the field and Sydney on the scaffold is ...
... minister who was as bad a representative of the system which has been christened after him as Becket of the spirit of the Gospel . On the other hand , the cause for which Hampden bled on the field and Sydney on the scaffold is ...
Page 124
... ministers , a rapacious aristocracy , a servile Parliament , such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome . The work which had been begun by Henry , the murderer of his wives , was continued by Somer ...
... ministers , a rapacious aristocracy , a servile Parliament , such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome . The work which had been begun by Henry , the murderer of his wives , was continued by Somer ...
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