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Page 117
... Hampden bled on the field and Sydney on the scaffold is enthusiastically toasted by many an honest radical who would be puzzled to explain the difference between Ship - money and the Habeas Corpus Act . It may be added that , as in ...
... Hampden bled on the field and Sydney on the scaffold is enthusiastically toasted by many an honest radical who would be puzzled to explain the difference between Ship - money and the Habeas Corpus Act . It may be added that , as in ...
Page 137
... Hampden in the affair of the ship- money met with the warm approbation of every re- spectable Royalist in England . It drew forth the ardent eulogies of the champions of the prerogative and even of the Crown lawyers themselves . Claren ...
... Hampden in the affair of the ship- money met with the warm approbation of every re- spectable Royalist in England . It drew forth the ardent eulogies of the champions of the prerogative and even of the Crown lawyers themselves . Claren ...
Page 145
... Hampden would have been proud to act . It is somewhat curious that the admirers of Straf- ford should also be , without a single exception , the admirers of Charles ; for , whatever we may think of the conduct of the Parliament towards ...
... Hampden would have been proud to act . It is somewhat curious that the admirers of Straf- ford should also be , without a single exception , the admirers of Charles ; for , whatever we may think of the conduct of the Parliament towards ...
Page 149
... Hampden became fiercer , that he drew the sword and threw away the scabbard . For , from that moment , it must have been evident to every im- partial observer that , in the midst of professions , oaths , and smiles , the tyrant was ...
... Hampden became fiercer , that he drew the sword and threw away the scabbard . For , from that moment , it must have been evident to every im- partial observer that , in the midst of professions , oaths , and smiles , the tyrant was ...
Page 159
... Hampden . The Parlia- ment might have been summoned once in twenty years , to congratulate a King on his accession , or to give solemnity to some great measure of state . Such had been the fate of legislative assemblies as powerful , as ...
... Hampden . The Parlia- ment might have been summoned once in twenty years , to congratulate a King on his accession , or to give solemnity to some great measure of state . Such had been the fate of legislative assemblies as powerful , as ...
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