Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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Pagina 36
... Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the subsidies ...
... Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the subsidies ...
Pagina 136
... Commons was that , meeting after a long intermission of parliaments , and after a long series of cruelties . and illegal imposts , they seemed inclined to examine grievances before they would vote supplies . For this insolence they were ...
... Commons was that , meeting after a long intermission of parliaments , and after a long series of cruelties . and illegal imposts , they seemed inclined to examine grievances before they would vote supplies . For this insolence they were ...
Pagina 140
... Commons might justly use . Did then the articles against Strafford strictly amount to high treason ? Many people , who know neither what the articles were , nor what high treason is , will answer in the negative , simply because the ...
... Commons might justly use . Did then the articles against Strafford strictly amount to high treason ? Many people , who know neither what the articles were , nor what high treason is , will answer in the negative , simply because the ...
Pagina 145
... Commons has been fully and most appropriately re- paid . The House of Wentworth has since that time been as much distinguished by public spirit as by power and splendour , and may at the present moment boast of members with whom Say and ...
... Commons has been fully and most appropriately re- paid . The House of Wentworth has since that time been as much distinguished by public spirit as by power and splendour , and may at the present moment boast of members with whom Say and ...
Pagina 148
... Commons would have given him a fair chance of retrieving the public confidence . Such was the opinion of Clarendon . He distinctly states that the fury of opposition had abated , that a reaction had begun to take place , that the ...
... Commons would have given him a fair chance of retrieving the public confidence . Such was the opinion of Clarendon . He distinctly states that the fury of opposition had abated , that a reaction had begun to take place , that the ...
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