Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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Page 35
... King himself . If there be any truth in any historian of any party who has related the events of that reign , the conduct of Charles , from his accession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression ...
... King himself . If there be any truth in any historian of any party who has related the events of that reign , the conduct of Charles , from his accession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression ...
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... King can do no wrong . If so , James was as innocent as Charles could have been . The minister only ought to be responsible for the acts of the Sovereign . If so , why not impeach Jefferies and retain James ? The person of a King is ...
... King can do no wrong . If so , James was as innocent as Charles could have been . The minister only ought to be responsible for the acts of the Sovereign . If so , why not impeach Jefferies and retain James ? The person of a King is ...
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... king and a persecuting hierarchy , he exerted himself in conjunction with others . But the glory of the battle which he fought for the species of freedom which is the most valuable , and which was then the least understood , the freedom ...
... king and a persecuting hierarchy , he exerted himself in conjunction with others . But the glory of the battle which he fought for the species of freedom which is the most valuable , and which was then the least understood , the freedom ...
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... King of Navarre , the Earl of Moray and the Earl of Morton , might espouse the Protestant opinions , or might pretend to espouse them ; but it was from Luther , from Calvin , from Knox , that the Reforma- tion took its character ...
... King of Navarre , the Earl of Moray and the Earl of Morton , might espouse the Protestant opinions , or might pretend to espouse them ; but it was from Luther , from Calvin , from Knox , that the Reforma- tion took its character ...
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... King . On a frivolous pretence he pro- nounced that marriage null and void . On a pretence , if possible , still more frivolous , he dissolved the ties which bound the shameless tyrant to Anne of Cleves . He attached himself to Cromwell ...
... King . On a frivolous pretence he pro- nounced that marriage null and void . On a pretence , if possible , still more frivolous , he dissolved the ties which bound the shameless tyrant to Anne of Cleves . He attached himself to Cromwell ...
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