Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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... liberty without calling for a community of goods , or a friend to order without taking under his protection the foulest excesses of tyranny . His admiration oscillates between the most worthless of rebels and the most worthless of ...
... liberty without calling for a community of goods , or a friend to order without taking under his protection the foulest excesses of tyranny . His admiration oscillates between the most worthless of rebels and the most worthless of ...
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... liberty . The divine right of kings , and the duty of passively obeying all their commands , were her favourite tenets . held those tenets firmly through times of oppression , persecu- tion , and licentiousness ; while law was trampled ...
... liberty . The divine right of kings , and the duty of passively obeying all their commands , were her favourite tenets . held those tenets firmly through times of oppression , persecu- tion , and licentiousness ; while law was trampled ...
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... liberty grew with the growing wealth and intelligence of the people . The feeble struggles and insults of James irritated instead of suppressing it ; and the events which immediately followed the accession of his son portended a contest ...
... liberty grew with the growing wealth and intelligence of the people . The feeble struggles and insults of James irritated instead of suppressing it ; and the events which immediately followed the accession of his son portended a contest ...
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... liberty can a modest and decent appeal to the laws be treated as a crime . Strafford , however , recommends that , for taking the sense of a legal tribunal on a legal question , Hampden should be punished , and punished severely ...
... liberty can a modest and decent appeal to the laws be treated as a crime . Strafford , however , recommends that , for taking the sense of a legal tribunal on a legal question , Hampden should be punished , and punished severely ...
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... liberty have been distinguished by their private virtues . But Strafford was the same throughout . As was the statesman , such was the kinsman and such the lover . His conduct towards Lord Mountmorris is recorded by Clarendon . For a ...
... liberty have been distinguished by their private virtues . But Strafford was the same throughout . As was the statesman , such was the kinsman and such the lover . His conduct towards Lord Mountmorris is recorded by Clarendon . For a ...
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