Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... parliament , and that , in consequence of a general seizure of his papers , this work may have been brought to the office in which it has been found . But whatever the adven- tures of the manuscript may have been , no doubt can exist ...
... parliament , and that , in consequence of a general seizure of his papers , this work may have been brought to the office in which it has been found . But whatever the adven- tures of the manuscript may have been , no doubt can exist ...
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... Parliament is good ; but it breaks off at the most interesting crisis of the struggle . The perform- ance of Ludlow is foolish and violent ; and most of the later writers who have espoused the same cause , Oldmixon for instance , and ...
... Parliament is good ; but it breaks off at the most interesting crisis of the struggle . The perform- ance of Ludlow is foolish and violent ; and most of the later writers who have espoused the same cause , Oldmixon for instance , and ...
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... parliament , and quartered troops on the people in the most illegal and vexatious manner . single session of parliament had passed without some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly ...
... parliament , and quartered troops on the people in the most illegal and vexatious manner . single session of parliament had passed without some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly ...
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... parliament and to submit to its decision all the matters in dispute . Yet we are in the habit of praising our forefathers , who preferred a revolution , a disputed succession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and ...
... parliament and to submit to its decision all the matters in dispute . Yet we are in the habit of praising our forefathers , who preferred a revolution , a disputed succession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and ...
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... parliament : another chance was given to our fathers were they to throw it away as they had thrown away the former ? Were they again to be cozened by le Roi le veut ? Were they again to advance their money on pledges which had been ...
... parliament : another chance was given to our fathers were they to throw it away as they had thrown away the former ? Were they again to be cozened by le Roi le veut ? Were they again to advance their money on pledges which had been ...
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