Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 - English essays |
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Page 24
... royal prerogative as vested in the king , not for his own sake , but for that of his subjects , must consider the one of these questions as much above the other in dignity , as the rights of the public are more valuable than those of an ...
... royal prerogative as vested in the king , not for his own sake , but for that of his subjects , must consider the one of these questions as much above the other in dignity , as the rights of the public are more valuable than those of an ...
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... royal armies ; and the anomalous military force , of which they patronized the formation in the city of Paris , were so many pre- parations for actual hostility , and led almost inevitably to that appeal to force , by which all prospect ...
... royal armies ; and the anomalous military force , of which they patronized the formation in the city of Paris , were so many pre- parations for actual hostility , and led almost inevitably to that appeal to force , by which all prospect ...
Page 44
... Royal preroga- tive , their own inviolability , and the responsibility of ministers . Before they put any one of their projects to the test of experiment , they had adopted such an enormous multitude , as entirely to innovate the con ...
... Royal preroga- tive , their own inviolability , and the responsibility of ministers . Before they put any one of their projects to the test of experiment , they had adopted such an enormous multitude , as entirely to innovate the con ...
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... Royal , dont Pascal étoit le chef ; il fit mourir de chagrin Racine ; il exila Fénélon ; il s'opposa constamment aux honneurs qu'on vouloit rendre à La Fontaine , et ne professa de l'admiration que pour Boileau . La littérature , en l ...
... Royal , dont Pascal étoit le chef ; il fit mourir de chagrin Racine ; il exila Fénélon ; il s'opposa constamment aux honneurs qu'on vouloit rendre à La Fontaine , et ne professa de l'admiration que pour Boileau . La littérature , en l ...
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... royal carriages whose patent of nobility was not certified by the Court heralds to bear date prior to the year 1400 ; and yet they not only assumed the name and title of nobles , but were admitted , as against the people , into a full ...
... royal carriages whose patent of nobility was not certified by the Court heralds to bear date prior to the year 1400 ; and yet they not only assumed the name and title of nobles , but were admitted , as against the people , into a full ...
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