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Page 11
... 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 to tyranny . They did not drive out a tyrant be ...
... 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 to tyranny . They did not drive out a tyrant be ...
Page 12
... prince should again require a supply , and again repay it with a perjury ? They were compelled to choose whether they would trust a tyrant or conquer him . We think that they chose wisely and nobly . by his predecessors , and he had ...
... prince should again require a supply , and again repay it with a perjury ? They were compelled to choose whether they would trust a tyrant or conquer him . We think that they chose wisely and nobly . by his predecessors , and he had ...
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... Prince is so severely censured is more or less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indi- cating that dissimulation and treachery had ever struck ...
... Prince is so severely censured is more or less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indi- cating that dissimulation and treachery had ever struck ...
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... prince as our Henry the Fifth would have been the idol of the North . The follies of his youth , the selfish and desolating ambi- tion of his manhood , the Lollards roasted at slow fires , the prisoners massacred on the field of battle ...
... prince as our Henry the Fifth would have been the idol of the North . The follies of his youth , the selfish and desolating ambi- tion of his manhood , the Lollards roasted at slow fires , the prisoners massacred on the field of battle ...
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... prince is established solely by the comparison of who governed his employers , of the favourite hands . Our suspicions are strengthened by the who governed the prince , and of the lacquey circumstance , that the same manuscript con- who ...
... prince is established solely by the comparison of who governed his employers , of the favourite hands . Our suspicions are strengthened by the who governed the prince , and of the lacquey circumstance , that the same manuscript con- who ...
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