The United Kingdom: A Political History, Том 2Macmillan, 1899 |
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... honour , strenuously upheld indemnity . Clarendon tells us that an attempt was made in vain to find the body of Charles I. This story , as Hallam says , cannot be true , since it was known both to the attendants at the funeral and to ...
... honour , strenuously upheld indemnity . Clarendon tells us that an attempt was made in vain to find the body of Charles I. This story , as Hallam says , cannot be true , since it was known both to the attendants at the funeral and to ...
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... honour , of the Indemnity Act ; by selfish land - owners as the opponent of the Irish Cattle Act . To the people he became odious by mismanagement in war , by his part in the sale of Dunkirk , an acquisition to which national pride ...
... honour , of the Indemnity Act ; by selfish land - owners as the opponent of the Irish Cattle Act . To the people he became odious by mismanagement in war , by his part in the sale of Dunkirk , an acquisition to which national pride ...
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... honour of having first organized the system . Andrew Marvell has the credit of having , though poor , resisted all temptation . There is a story of a visit paid him by Danby , who found him at his desk up two pairs of stairs in a little ...
... honour of having first organized the system . Andrew Marvell has the credit of having , though poor , resisted all temptation . There is a story of a visit paid him by Danby , who found him at his desk up two pairs of stairs in a little ...
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... honoured , though , like other Whigs , he had disgraced himself by countenancing the Popish Plot . Algernon Sidney was an old soldier of the New Model , a regicide in sentiment though not in act , a member of the Council of State under ...
... honoured , though , like other Whigs , he had disgraced himself by countenancing the Popish Plot . Algernon Sidney was an old soldier of the New Model , a regicide in sentiment though not in act , a member of the Council of State under ...
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... honour the publication of the alleged libel . A roar of national exultation greeted the verdict , and was taken up by the camp which James , to coerce London , had placed at Hounslow ; unad- visedly , for troops quartered in or near a ...
... honour the publication of the alleged libel . A roar of national exultation greeted the verdict , and was taken up by the camp which James , to coerce London , had placed at Hounslow ; unad- visedly , for troops quartered in or near a ...
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Страница 79 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Страница 19 - ... we do declare a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Страница 254 - We must not count with certainty on a continuance of our present prosperity during such an interval ; but unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from the situation of Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace, than we may at the present moment.
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Страница 146 - Kings.—The notions concerning the divine institution and right of kings, as well as the absolute power belonging to their office, have no foundation in fact or reason, but have risen from an old alliance between ecclesiastical and civil policy. The characters of king and priest have been sometimes blended together; and when they have been divided, as kings have found the great effects wrought in government by the empire which priests obtain over the consciences of mankind, so priests have been...
Страница 79 - That king James II. having endeavoured to subvert the " constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original " contract between king and people ; and having, by " the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, violated " the fundamental laws, and withdrawn himself out of " the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the