Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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Page 19
... taken off , you may govern as you please : and most resolute I am that may be done without borrowing any help forth of the King's lodgings . " Such was the theory of that thorough reform in the state which Strafford meditated . His ...
... taken off , you may govern as you please : and most resolute I am that may be done without borrowing any help forth of the King's lodgings . " Such was the theory of that thorough reform in the state which Strafford meditated . His ...
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... taken part against the King were desirous of an honourable and complete recon- ciliation , and that the more violent , or , as it soon appeared , the more judicious members of the popular party were fast declining in credit . The ...
... taken part against the King were desirous of an honourable and complete recon- ciliation , and that the more violent , or , as it soon appeared , the more judicious members of the popular party were fast declining in credit . The ...
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... taken . The right of directing the education and marriage of the princes was most properly claimed by the Parliament , on the same ground on which , after the Revolution , it was enacted , that no king , on pain of forfeiting his throne ...
... taken . The right of directing the education and marriage of the princes was most properly claimed by the Parliament , on the same ground on which , after the Revolution , it was enacted , that no king , on pain of forfeiting his throne ...
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... taken off his hat when he went into a church . The character of Charles would scarcely rise in our estimation , if we believed that he was pricked in conscience after the manner of this worthy loyalist , and that while violating all the ...
... taken off his hat when he went into a church . The character of Charles would scarcely rise in our estimation , if we believed that he was pricked in conscience after the manner of this worthy loyalist , and that while violating all the ...
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... taken under the patronage of any party , though every device has been used to blacken it , though to praise him would long have been a punishable crime , truth and merit at last prevail . Cowards who had trembled at the very sound of ...
... taken under the patronage of any party , though every device has been used to blacken it , though to praise him would long have been a punishable crime , truth and merit at last prevail . Cowards who had trembled at the very sound of ...
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