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Page 43
... opposition . This spectacle naturally gratified a prince to Every thing about Milton is wonderful ; bu whose family the opposition of parliaments nothing is so wonderful as that , in an age so had been so fatal . Politeness was his ...
... opposition . This spectacle naturally gratified a prince to Every thing about Milton is wonderful ; bu whose family the opposition of parliaments nothing is so wonderful as that , in an age so had been so fatal . Politeness was his ...
Page 73
... opposition , vehement , daring , and inflexible , sprang from a schism about trifles , altogether unconnected with the real interests of religion or of the state . Before the close of the reign of Elizabeth it began to show itself . It ...
... opposition , vehement , daring , and inflexible , sprang from a schism about trifles , altogether unconnected with the real interests of religion or of the state . Before the close of the reign of Elizabeth it began to show itself . It ...
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... opposition , than to rear them in a ministry . He was the first English- man to whom a peerage was not an addition of honour , but a sacrament of infamy - a bap- tism into the communion of corruption . As he was the earliest of the ...
... opposition , than to rear them in a ministry . He was the first English- man to whom a peerage was not an addition of honour , but a sacrament of infamy - a bap- tism into the communion of corruption . As he was the earliest of the ...
Page 78
... opposition , and raised a king who was talking of retiring to Hanover , to a height of power which none of his predecessors had en- joyed since the Revolution . A crisis of this description was evidently approaching in 1642 . At such a ...
... opposition , and raised a king who was talking of retiring to Hanover , to a height of power which none of his predecessors had en- joyed since the Revolution . A crisis of this description was evidently approaching in 1642 . At such a ...
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... Opposition , publicity , the statesmen of the Revolution , who conceived long discussion , frequent compromise , these that England could not safely be governed by are the characteristics of the proceedings in a sovereign married to a ...
... Opposition , publicity , the statesmen of the Revolution , who conceived long discussion , frequent compromise , these that England could not safely be governed by are the characteristics of the proceedings in a sovereign married to a ...
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