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... force in favour of what is called the great rebellion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a papist ...
... force in favour of what is called the great rebellion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a papist ...
Page 14
... force , it was not till he found that the few members , who remained after so many deaths , secessions , We do not , we repeat , approve of the execu- and expulsions , were desirous to appropriate tion of Charles ; not because the ...
... force , it was not till he found that the few members , who remained after so many deaths , secessions , We do not , we repeat , approve of the execu- and expulsions , were desirous to appropriate tion of Charles ; not because the ...
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... force of circum- tha of every fawning dean . In every high stances , though we admire , in common with place , worship was paid to Charles and James all men of all parties , the ability and energy - Belial and Moloch ; and England ...
... force of circum- tha of every fawning dean . In every high stances , though we admire , in common with place , worship was paid to Charles and James all men of all parties , the ability and energy - Belial and Moloch ; and England ...
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... force , long after their neighbours had begun c hire soldiers . But their military spirit declined with their singular institutions . In the second century , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of ...
... force , long after their neighbours had begun c hire soldiers . But their military spirit declined with their singular institutions . In the second century , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of ...
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... force , the narrative . It is true , that many circum- if necessary , by force . In all this there is no- stances now forgotten may have been familiar thing different from the ordinary practice of to his contemporaries , and may have ...
... force , the narrative . It is true , that many circum- if necessary , by force . In all this there is no- stances now forgotten may have been familiar thing different from the ordinary practice of to his contemporaries , and may have ...
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