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should no longer be a small interior council , like that which is now designated as the Cabinet , that a new Privy Council of thirty members should be appointed , and that the King should pledge himself to govern by the constant advice ...
should no longer be a small interior council , like that which is now designated as the Cabinet , that a new Privy Council of thirty members should be appointed , and that the King should pledge himself to govern by the constant advice ...
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... Council of thirty , whom he had himself chosen , would have been feeble indeed when compared with the restraint imposed by Parliament . But it would have been more constant . It would have acted every year , and all the year round ; and ...
... Council of thirty , whom he had himself chosen , would have been feeble indeed when compared with the restraint imposed by Parliament . But it would have been more constant . It would have acted every year , and all the year round ; and ...
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... Council by whose advice he had pledged himself , only a month before , to conduct the Government . The counsellors were generally dissatisfied ; and Shaftesbury swore , with great vehemence , that if he could find out who the secret ...
... Council by whose advice he had pledged himself , only a month before , to conduct the Government . The counsellors were generally dissatisfied ; and Shaftesbury swore , with great vehemence , that if he could find out who the secret ...
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HALLAMS HISTORY | 3 |
RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES | 31 |
INDEX | 38 |
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