A History of the British Empire: From the Accession of Charles I. to the Restoration; with an Introduction, Tracing the Progress of Society, and of the Constitution, from the Feudal Times to the Opening of the History ; and Including a Particular Examination of Mr. Hume's Statements Relative to the Character of the English Government, Том 3Bell & Bradfute, 1822 |
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... prepared to bring the American set- tlements under the same yoke with the mother country . The clergy had , under the royal coun- tenance , assumed , in convocation , legislative pow- ers , and even imposed on the general body , taxes ...
... prepared to bring the American set- tlements under the same yoke with the mother country . The clergy had , under the royal coun- tenance , assumed , in convocation , legislative pow- ers , and even imposed on the general body , taxes ...
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... prepared to determine ; but the passage , and it is only a specimen of this author's manner , is surely as remote from philosophical liberality as from truth . Aware that the attempt to justify the monarch for endeavouring to impose ...
... prepared to determine ; but the passage , and it is only a specimen of this author's manner , is surely as remote from philosophical liberality as from truth . Aware that the attempt to justify the monarch for endeavouring to impose ...
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... the faith and worship to those of despotical countries , that they might operate in preparing the public mind for the same civil subjection . With- out the prevalence of such superstition , he conceiv- ed HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE . 9.
... the faith and worship to those of despotical countries , that they might operate in preparing the public mind for the same civil subjection . With- out the prevalence of such superstition , he conceiv- ed HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE . 9.
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... prepared for them ; and matters must have either terminated in a dreadful convul- sion in the next age , or Britain , the seat of wealth and innumerable comforts , the preserver and disse- minator of rational liberty in modern times ...
... prepared for them ; and matters must have either terminated in a dreadful convul- sion in the next age , or Britain , the seat of wealth and innumerable comforts , the preserver and disse- minator of rational liberty in modern times ...
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... prepare the public inind for the doctrine of passive obedience in the state , ceremonies which were not so inhumanly enforced as altogether insignificant , but which implied points of faith universally abhorred― that because they ...
... prepare the public inind for the doctrine of passive obedience in the state , ceremonies which were not so inhumanly enforced as altogether insignificant , but which implied points of faith universally abhorred― that because they ...
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