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Page 134
... taken a more decided part than Hampden . They had all been concerned in the impeachment of Strafford . They had all , there is reason to believe , voted for the Bill of Attainder . Certainly none of them voted against it . They had all ...
... taken a more decided part than Hampden . They had all been concerned in the impeachment of Strafford . They had all , there is reason to believe , voted for the Bill of Attainder . Certainly none of them voted against it . They had all ...
Page 231
... taken place at this crisis , it is probable that the country would have sent up representatives as resolutely hostile to the Court as those who met in November 1640 ; that the whole domestic and foreign policy of the Government would ...
... taken place at this crisis , it is probable that the country would have sent up representatives as resolutely hostile to the Court as those who met in November 1640 ; that the whole domestic and foreign policy of the Government would ...
Page 519
... taken anything , we must admit that he deserves praise for having taken so little . He accepted twenty lacs of rupees . It would have cost him only a word to make the twenty forty . It was a very easy exercise of virtue to declaim in ...
... taken anything , we must admit that he deserves praise for having taken so little . He accepted twenty lacs of rupees . It would have cost him only a word to make the twenty forty . It was a very easy exercise of virtue to declaim in ...
Contents
HALLAMS HISTORY | 3 |
RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES | 31 |
INDEX | 38 |
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