Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Pagina 35
... King himself . If there be any truth in any historian of any party who has related the events of that reign , the conduct of Charles , from his accession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression ...
... King himself . If there be any truth in any historian of any party who has related the events of that reign , the conduct of Charles , from his accession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression ...
Pagina 36
... King . He had no doubt passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with ...
... King . He had no doubt passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with ...
Pagina 43
... King can do no wrong . If So , James was as innocent as Charles could have been . The minister only ought to be respon- sible for the acts of the Sovereign . If so , why not impeach Jefferies and retain James ? The person of a King is ...
... King can do no wrong . If So , James was as innocent as Charles could have been . The minister only ought to be respon- sible for the acts of the Sovereign . If so , why not impeach Jefferies and retain James ? The person of a King is ...
Pagina 125
... King of Navarre , the Earl of Moray and the Earl of Morton , might espouse the Protestant opinions , or might pretend to espouse them ; but it was from Luther , from Calvin , from Knox , that the Reforma- tion took its character . But ...
... King of Navarre , the Earl of Moray and the Earl of Morton , might espouse the Protestant opinions , or might pretend to espouse them ; but it was from Luther , from Calvin , from Knox , that the Reforma- tion took its character . But ...
Pagina 127
... King . On a frivolous pretence he pronounced that marriage null and void . On a pre- tence , if possible , still more frivolous , he dissolved the ties which bound the shameless tyrant to Anne of Cleves . He attached himself to Cromwell ...
... King . On a frivolous pretence he pronounced that marriage null and void . On a pre- tence , if possible , still more frivolous , he dissolved the ties which bound the shameless tyrant to Anne of Cleves . He attached himself to Cromwell ...
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