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Page 34
... constitutional influence for that purpose , the Prince of Orange would ever have been invited over . Our ancestors , we suppose , knew their own meaning ; and , if we may believe them , their hostility was primarily not to popery , but ...
... constitutional influence for that purpose , the Prince of Orange would ever have been invited over . Our ancestors , we suppose , knew their own meaning ; and , if we may believe them , their hostility was primarily not to popery , but ...
Page 36
... constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the subsidies are voted ; but no sooner is the tyrant ...
... constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the subsidies are voted ; but no sooner is the tyrant ...
Page 43
... Martyr may be visited on themselves and their children . We disapprove , we repeat , of the execution of Charles ; not because the constitution exempts the King from responsibility , for we know that all such MILTON . 43.
... Martyr may be visited on themselves and their children . We disapprove , we repeat , of the execution of Charles ; not because the constitution exempts the King from responsibility , for we know that all such MILTON . 43.
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... constitution far more perfect than any which had at that time been known in the world . reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise even from Lord Clarendon . For himself he demanded indeed the first place ...
... constitution far more perfect than any which had at that time been known in the world . reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise even from Lord Clarendon . For himself he demanded indeed the first place ...
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... constitution is infinitely better than the best despot . But we suspect , that at the time of which we speak , the violence of religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to impossible . The choice lay ...
... constitution is infinitely better than the best despot . But we suspect , that at the time of which we speak , the violence of religious and political enmities rendered a stable and happy settlement next to impossible . The choice lay ...
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