Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 35
... parliament , and quartered troops on the people in the most illegal and vexatious manner . Not a single session of parliament had passed with- out some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly ...
... parliament , and quartered troops on the people in the most illegal and vexatious manner . Not a single session of parliament had passed with- out some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly ...
Pagina 36
... parliament and to submit to its decision all the matters in dispute . Yet we are in the habit of praising our forefathers , who preferred a revolu- tion , a disputed succession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and ...
... parliament and to submit to its decision all the matters in dispute . Yet we are in the habit of praising our forefathers , who preferred a revolu- tion , a disputed succession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and ...
Pagina 37
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. to summon another parliament : another chance was given to our fathers : were they to throw it away as they had thrown away the former ? Were they again to be cozened by le Roi le veut ? Were ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. to summon another parliament : another chance was given to our fathers : were they to throw it away as they had thrown away the former ? Were they again to be cozened by le Roi le veut ? Were ...
Pagina 39
... Parliament , indeed , rarely choose to take issue on the great points of the ques- tion . They content themselves with exposing some of the crimes and follies to which public commotions necessarily give birth . They bewail the unmerited ...
... Parliament , indeed , rarely choose to take issue on the great points of the ques- tion . They content themselves with exposing some of the crimes and follies to which public commotions necessarily give birth . They bewail the unmerited ...
Pagina 45
... Parliament , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few members who remained after so many deaths , secessions , and expulsions , were desirous to ...
... Parliament , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few members who remained after so many deaths , secessions , and expulsions , were desirous to ...
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