Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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Page 32
... returned to it again ; and the character which was habitual prevailed over that which was occasional . A cam- paign of forty days was too short , the discipline of a national militia too lax , to efface from their minds the feelings of ...
... returned to it again ; and the character which was habitual prevailed over that which was occasional . A cam- paign of forty days was too short , the discipline of a national militia too lax , to efface from their minds the feelings of ...
Page 35
... that he would then have returned to oppose all their measures ; that he would have been sent to the Tower by the Commons as a stifler of the Popish Plot , and by the King as an accomplice in the Rye - House Plot ; and Hallam 35.
... that he would then have returned to oppose all their measures ; that he would have been sent to the Tower by the Commons as a stifler of the Popish Plot , and by the King as an accomplice in the Rye - House Plot ; and Hallam 35.
Page 105
... returned to parliament by a borough which has in our time obtained a miserable celebrity , the borough of Grampound . Of his private life during his early years little is known beyond what Clarendon has told us . " In his entrance into ...
... returned to parliament by a borough which has in our time obtained a miserable celebrity , the borough of Grampound . Of his private life during his early years little is known beyond what Clarendon has told us . " In his entrance into ...
Page 131
... returned thanks for it ; and all the pious Lords of the council together exhorted their victim to what they were pleased facetiously to call " the quiet and patient suffering of justice . " But it is not necessary to defend the ...
... returned thanks for it ; and all the pious Lords of the council together exhorted their victim to what they were pleased facetiously to call " the quiet and patient suffering of justice . " But it is not necessary to defend the ...
Page 137
... returned to Whitehall with his company of bravoes , who , while he was in the House , had been impatiently waiting in the lobby for the word , cocking their pistols , and crying , " Fall on . " That night he put forth a proclamation ...
... returned to Whitehall with his company of bravoes , who , while he was in the House , had been impatiently waiting in the lobby for the word , cocking their pistols , and crying , " Fall on . " That night he put forth a proclamation ...
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