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Page 43
... opposition . This spectacle naturally gratified a prince to whose family the opposition of parliaments had been so fatal . Politeness was his solitary good quality . The insults which he had suf- fered in Scotland had taught him to ...
... opposition . This spectacle naturally gratified a prince to whose family the opposition of parliaments had been so fatal . Politeness was his solitary good quality . The insults which he had suf- fered in Scotland had taught him to ...
Page 73
... opposition , vehement , daring , and inflexible , sprang from a schism about trifles , Before the close akgether unconnected with the real interests of religion or of the state . of the reign of Elizabeth it began to show itself . It ...
... opposition , vehement , daring , and inflexible , sprang from a schism about trifles , Before the close akgether unconnected with the real interests of religion or of the state . of the reign of Elizabeth it began to show itself . It ...
Page 74
... 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 with defensive arms ; from that moment , the talking of retiring to Hanover , to a height of city assumed the appearance of a garrison ; power which none of his predecessors had en- from that ...
... opposition , and raised a king who was with defensive arms ; from that moment , the talking of retiring to Hanover , to a height of city assumed the appearance of a garrison ; power which none of his predecessors had en- from that ...
Page 88
... opposition , dangerous to his power and to his person , almost compelled him to go- vern by the sword , he was still anxious to leave a germ from which , at a more favourable sea son , free institutions might spring . We firmly believe ...
... opposition , dangerous to his power and to his person , almost compelled him to go- vern by the sword , he was still anxious to leave a germ from which , at a more favourable sea son , free institutions might spring . We firmly believe ...
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