Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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Page 11
... army of martyrs , his claims require fuller discussion . The origin of his greatness , common enough in the scandalous chronicles of courts , seems strangely out of place in a hagiology . Cranmer rose into favour by serving Henry in the ...
... army of martyrs , his claims require fuller discussion . The origin of his greatness , common enough in the scandalous chronicles of courts , seems strangely out of place in a hagiology . Cranmer rose into favour by serving Henry in the ...
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... army , now the most formidable instrument of the executive power , was then the most formidable check on that power . Resistance to an established government , in modern times so difficult and perilous an enterprise , was in the ...
... army , now the most formidable instrument of the executive power , was then the most formidable check on that power . Resistance to an established government , in modern times so difficult and perilous an enterprise , was in the ...
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... army at his pleasure . " This place well fortified , " says he , " for ever vindicates the monarchy at home from under the condi- tions and restraints of subjects . " We firmly believe that he was in the right . Nay ; we believe that ...
... army at his pleasure . " This place well fortified , " says he , " for ever vindicates the monarchy at home from under the condi- tions and restraints of subjects . " We firmly believe that he was in the right . Nay ; we believe that ...
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... army and the con- duct of the Irish war to a King who had proposed to himself the destruction of liberty as the great end of his policy . We are decidedly of opinion that it would have been fatal to com- ply . Many of those who took the ...
... army and the con- duct of the Irish war to a King who had proposed to himself the destruction of liberty as the great end of his policy . We are decidedly of opinion that it would have been fatal to com- ply . Many of those who took the ...
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... army for the purpose of subverting them . Mr. Hallam thinks that the dispute might easily have been compromised , by enacting that the King should have no power to keep a standing army on foot without the consent of Parlia- ment . He ...
... army for the purpose of subverting them . Mr. Hallam thinks that the dispute might easily have been compromised , by enacting that the King should have no power to keep a standing army on foot without the consent of Parlia- ment . He ...
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