Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Volume 1 |
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... party , at whose pleasure all the magis trates composing the tribunal were removable . The decision in the case of Strafford was unanimous ; as far as we can judge , it was un- biassed ; and though there may be room for hesitation , we ...
... party , at whose pleasure all the magis trates composing the tribunal were removable . The decision in the case of Strafford was unanimous ; as far as we can judge , it was un- biassed ; and though there may be room for hesitation , we ...
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... party were fast declining in credit . The remonstrance had been carried with great dif ficulty . The uncompromising antagonists of the court , such as Cromwell , had begun to talk of selling their estates and leaving Eng- land . The ...
... party were fast declining in credit . The remonstrance had been carried with great dif ficulty . The uncompromising antagonists of the court , such as Cromwell , had begun to talk of selling their estates and leaving Eng- land . The ...
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... party has no remedy against the king . " | It deserves to be remarked , that the king had , a short time before , promised the most respectable royalists in the House of Commons , Falkland , Colepepper , and Hyde , that he would take no ...
... party has no remedy against the king . " | It deserves to be remarked , that the king had , a short time before , promised the most respectable royalists in the House of Commons , Falkland , Colepepper , and Hyde , that he would take no ...
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... party . The most zealous royalists were so much disgusted and ashamed , that they suspended their opposition to the po- pular party , and , silently , at least , concurred in measures of precaution so strong as almost to amount to ...
... party . The most zealous royalists were so much disgusted and ashamed , that they suspended their opposition to the po- pular party , and , silently , at least , concurred in measures of precaution so strong as almost to amount to ...
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... party annoyed him , and drove him to the other party , to be equally annoyed there . Dreading the success of the cause which he had espoused , sickened by the courtiers of Oxford , as he had been sickened by the patriots of Westminster ...
... party annoyed him , and drove him to the other party , to be equally annoyed there . Dreading the success of the cause which he had espoused , sickened by the courtiers of Oxford , as he had been sickened by the patriots of Westminster ...
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