Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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Page 32
... force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Papist ...
... force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Papist ...
Page 45
... force , it was not till he found that the few members who remained after so many deaths , secessions , and expulsions , were desirous to appropriate to themselves a power which they held only in trust , and to inflict upon England the ...
... force , it was not till he found that the few members who remained after so many deaths , secessions , and expulsions , were desirous to appropriate to themselves a power which they held only in trust , and to inflict upon England the ...
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... force of circumstances , though we admire , in common with all men of all parties , the ability and energy of his splendid administration , we are not pleading for arbitrary and lawless power , even in his hands . We know that a good ...
... force of circumstances , though we admire , in common with all men of all parties , the ability and energy of his splendid administration , we are not pleading for arbitrary and lawless power , even in his hands . We know that a good ...
Page 76
... force long after their neighbours had begun to hire soldiers . But their military spirit declined with their singular institu- tions . In the second century before Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage ...
... force long after their neighbours had begun to hire soldiers . But their military spirit declined with their singular institu- tions . In the second century before Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage ...
Page 120
... Elizabeth apply with much greater force to the case of her sister Mary . The Catholics did not , at the time of Elizabeth's accession , rise in arms to seat a Pretender on her throne . But before Mary 120 HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY .
... Elizabeth apply with much greater force to the case of her sister Mary . The Catholics did not , at the time of Elizabeth's accession , rise in arms to seat a Pretender on her throne . But before Mary 120 HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY .
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