Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 30
... question is the charming narrative of Mrs. Hutchinson . May's History of the Parliament is good ; but it breaks off at the most interesting crisis of the struggle . The performance of Ludlow is foolish and violent ; and most of the ...
... question is the charming narrative of Mrs. Hutchinson . May's History of the Parliament is good ; but it breaks off at the most interesting crisis of the struggle . The performance of Ludlow is foolish and violent ; and most of the ...
Page 31
... question . We shall not argue it on general grounds . We shall not recur to those primary principles from which the claim of any gov- ernment to the obedience of its subjects is to be deduced . We are entitled to that vantage ground ...
... question . We shall not argue it on general grounds . We shall not recur to those primary principles from which the claim of any gov- ernment to the obedience of its subjects is to be deduced . We are entitled to that vantage ground ...
Page 34
... question , then , is this : Had Charles the First broken the fundamental laws of England ? No person can answer in the negative , unless he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his opponents ...
... question , then , is this : Had Charles the First broken the fundamental laws of England ? No person can answer in the negative , unless he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his opponents ...
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... question . They con- tent themselves with exposing some of the crimes and follies to which public commotions necessarily give birth . They be- wail the unmerited fate of Strafford . They execrate the law- less violence of the army ...
... question . They con- tent themselves with exposing some of the crimes and follies to which public commotions necessarily give birth . They be- wail the unmerited fate of Strafford . They execrate the law- less violence of the army ...
Page 53
... question . It was not for a treacherous king or an intolerant church that they fought , but for the old banner which had waved in so many battles over the heads of their fathers , and for the altars at which they had MILTON . 53.
... question . It was not for a treacherous king or an intolerant church that they fought , but for the old banner which had waved in so many battles over the heads of their fathers , and for the altars at which they had MILTON . 53.
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