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... opposition , which stopped short of open rebellion , provoked the resent- ment of the liberal and magnanimous usurper . The institutions which he had established , as set down in the Instrument of Government , and the Humble Petition ...
... opposition , which stopped short of open rebellion , provoked the resent- ment of the liberal and magnanimous usurper . The institutions which he had established , as set down in the Instrument of Government , and the Humble Petition ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 hap- 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 hap- tism into the communion of corruption . As he was the earliest of the ...
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... 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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