Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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Page 35
... passed without some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly violated ; arbitrary judg- ments , exorbitant fines , and unwarranted imprison- ments , were grievances of daily occurrence . If ...
... passed without some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly violated ; arbitrary judg- ments , exorbitant fines , and unwarranted imprison- ments , were grievances of daily occurrence . If ...
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... passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no tie could ...
... passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no tie could ...
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... passed away . Events which short - sighted politicians as- cribed to earthly causes , had been ordained on his account . For his sake empires had risen , and flou- rished , and decayed . For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will ...
... passed away . Events which short - sighted politicians as- cribed to earthly causes , had been ordained on his account . For his sake empires had risen , and flou- rished , and decayed . For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will ...
Page 58
... passed on to other subjects , and abandoned prelacy to the crowd of writers who now hastened to insult a falling party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing the torch of truth into those dark and infected recesses ...
... passed on to other subjects , and abandoned prelacy to the crowd of writers who now hastened to insult a falling party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing the torch of truth into those dark and infected recesses ...
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... passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay undistinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the great- est statesman of Florence . In the church of Santa Croce a monument ...
... passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay undistinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the great- est statesman of Florence . In the church of Santa Croce a monument ...
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