Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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... Charles should have been mistaken in this point is not surprising . But we are astonished , we must con- fess , that men of our own time , men who have before them the proof of what toleration can effect , men who may see with their own ...
... Charles should have been mistaken in this point is not surprising . But we are astonished , we must con- fess , that men of our own time , men who have before them the proof of what toleration can effect , men who may see with their own ...
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... Charles , and the tyrannical measures which followed its dissolution , are extremely well described by Mr. Hallam . No writer , we think , has shown , in so clear and satisfactory a manner , that the Government then entertained a fixed ...
... Charles , and the tyrannical measures which followed its dissolution , are extremely well described by Mr. Hallam . No writer , we think , has shown , in so clear and satisfactory a manner , that the Government then entertained a fixed ...
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... Charles the First . That Prince had governed during eleven years without any Parliament ; and , even when Parliament was sitting , had supported Buckingham against its most violent remonstrances . Mr. Hallam is of opinion that a bill of ...
... Charles the First . That Prince had governed during eleven years without any Parliament ; and , even when Parliament was sitting , had supported Buckingham against its most violent remonstrances . Mr. Hallam is of opinion that a bill of ...
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... Charles ; for , whatever we may think of the conduct of the Parliament towards the unhappy favourite , there can be no doubt that the treatment which he received from his master was disgraceful . Faithless alike to his people and to his ...
... Charles ; for , whatever we may think of the conduct of the Parliament towards the unhappy favourite , there can be no doubt that the treatment which he received from his master was disgraceful . Faithless alike to his people and to his ...
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... Charles had been blameless , it might have been said that his eyes were at last opened to the errors of his former conduct , and that , in sacrificing to the wishes of his Parliament a minister whose crime had been a devotion too ...
... Charles had been blameless , it might have been said that his eyes were at last opened to the errors of his former conduct , and that , in sacrificing to the wishes of his Parliament a minister whose crime had been a devotion too ...
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