Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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... ministers , a rapacious aristocracy , a servile Parliament , such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome . The work which had been begun by Henry , the murderer of his wives , was continued by Somerset ...
... ministers , a rapacious aristocracy , a servile Parliament , such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome . The work which had been begun by Henry , the murderer of his wives , was continued by Somerset ...
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... ministers . They remind persons of this description that there may be a day of reckoning for those who ruin and ... minister than Strafford , if a worse could exist ; for , at present , Parlia- ment has only to withhold its support from ...
... ministers . They remind persons of this description that there may be a day of reckoning for those who ruin and ... minister than Strafford , if a worse could exist ; for , at present , Parlia- ment has only to withhold its support from ...
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... minister whose crime had been a devotion too zealous to the interests of his prerogative , he gave a painful and deeply humiliating proof of the sincerity of his repentance . We may describe the King's behaviour on this occasion in ...
... minister whose crime had been a devotion too zealous to the interests of his prerogative , he gave a painful and deeply humiliating proof of the sincerity of his repentance . We may describe the King's behaviour on this occasion in ...
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... ministers , the relations with foreign powers , the conduct of a war or a negotiation , depended less on the pleasure of the Prince than on that of the two Houses . What then made us to differ ? Why was it that , in that epidemic malady ...
... ministers , the relations with foreign powers , the conduct of a war or a negotiation , depended less on the pleasure of the Prince than on that of the two Houses . What then made us to differ ? Why was it that , in that epidemic malady ...
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... ministers , there was great reason to appre- hend a natural extinction of the Constitution . If , for example , Charles had played the part of Gustavus Adolphus , if he had carried on a popular war for the defence of the Protestant ...
... ministers , there was great reason to appre- hend a natural extinction of the Constitution . If , for example , Charles had played the part of Gustavus Adolphus , if he had carried on a popular war for the defence of the Protestant ...
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