Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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Page 17
... opposition , vehement , daring , and inflexible , sprang from a schism about trifles , altogether unconnected with the real interests of religion or of the state . Before the close of the reign of Elizabeth this opposition began to show ...
... opposition , vehement , daring , and inflexible , sprang from a schism about trifles , altogether unconnected with the real interests of religion or of the state . Before the close of the reign of Elizabeth this opposition began to show ...
Page 19
... Opposition than to rear them in a Ministry . He was the first Englishman to whom a peerage was a sacrament of infamy , a baptism into the communion of corruption . As he was the earliest of the hateful list , so was he also by far the ...
... Opposition than to rear them in a Ministry . He was the first Englishman to whom a peerage was a sacrament of infamy , a baptism into the communion of corruption . As he was the earliest of the hateful list , so was he also by far the ...
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... opposition had abated , that a reaction had begun to take place , that the majority of those who had taken part against the King were desirous of an honourable and complete recon- ciliation , and that the more violent , or , as it soon ...
... opposition had abated , that a reaction had begun to take place , that the majority of those who had taken part against the King were desirous of an honourable and complete recon- ciliation , and that the more violent , or , as it soon ...
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... Opposition , and raised a King who was talking of retiring to Hanover to a height of power which none of his predecessors had enjoyed since the Revolution . A crisis of this description was evidently approaching in 1642. At such a ...
... Opposition , and raised a King who was talking of retiring to Hanover to a height of power which none of his predecessors had enjoyed since the Revolution . A crisis of this description was evidently approaching in 1642. At such a ...
Page 30
... opposition to the popular party , and , silently at least , concurred in measures of precaution so strong as almost to amount to resistance . From that day , whatever of confidence and loyal attachment had survived the misrule of ...
... opposition to the popular party , and , silently at least , concurred in measures of precaution so strong as almost to amount to resistance . From that day , whatever of confidence and loyal attachment had survived the misrule of ...
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