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... followed the dissolution of the Oxford Parliament , and that , in consequence of a general seizure of his papers , this work may have been brought to the office in which it had been found . But whatever the adven- tures of the ...
... followed the dissolution of the Oxford Parliament , and that , in consequence of a general seizure of his papers , this work may have been brought to the office in which it had been found . But whatever the adven- tures of the ...
Page 15
... followed his decease are the most complete vindication of those who exert- ed themselves to uphold his authority . For his death dissolved the whole frame of society . The army rose against the Parliament , the different corps of the ...
... followed his decease are the most complete vindication of those who exert- ed themselves to uphold his authority . For his death dissolved the whole frame of society . The army rose against the Parliament , the different corps of the ...
Page 54
... followed by any thing with which they harmonize . They give to the whole book something of the gro- tesque character of those Chinese pleasure- grounds , in which perpendicular rocks of granite start up in the midst of a soft green ...
... followed by any thing with which they harmonize . They give to the whole book something of the gro- tesque character of those Chinese pleasure- grounds , in which perpendicular rocks of granite start up in the midst of a soft green ...
Page 73
... followed the Revolution . That James and Charles should have been mistaken on this point , is not sur- prising . But we are astonished , we must con- fess , when writers of our own time , men who have before them the proof of what ...
... followed the Revolution . That James and Charles should have been mistaken on this point , is not sur- prising . But we are astonished , we must con- fess , when writers of our own time , men who have before them the proof of what ...
Page 81
... followed , we have little doubt that he would have condemned himself to share the exile and beggary of the royal family ; that he would then have returned to oppose all their measures ; that he would have been sent to the Tower by the ...
... followed , we have little doubt that he would have condemned himself to share the exile and beggary of the royal family ; that he would then have returned to oppose all their measures ; that he would have been sent to the Tower by the ...
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