Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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Pagina 15
... favour of the Revolution of 1688 may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Re- bellion . We will concede that Charles was a good Protestant ; but we say that his Protestantism does not make the ...
... favour of the Revolution of 1688 may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Re- bellion . We will concede that Charles was a good Protestant ; but we say that his Protestantism does not make the ...
Pagina 23
... favour ; and , confident of that favour , they despised all the accomplishments and all the dignities of the world . If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets , they were deeply read in the oracles of God . If ...
... favour ; and , confident of that favour , they despised all the accomplishments and all the dignities of the world . If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets , they were deeply read in the oracles of God . If ...
Pagina 54
... favour of Elizabeth apply with much greater force to the case of her sister Mary . The Catholics did not , at the time of Elizabeth's acces- sion , rise in arms to seat a Pretender on her throne . But before Mary had given , or could ...
... favour of Elizabeth apply with much greater force to the case of her sister Mary . The Catholics did not , at the time of Elizabeth's acces- sion , rise in arms to seat a Pretender on her throne . But before Mary had given , or could ...
Pagina 57
... favour by serving Henry in the disgraceful affair of his first divorce . He pro- moted the marriage of Anne Boleyn with the King . On a frivolous pretence he pronounced that marriage null and void . On a pretence , if possible , still ...
... favour by serving Henry in the disgraceful affair of his first divorce . He pro- moted the marriage of Anne Boleyn with the King . On a frivolous pretence he pronounced that marriage null and void . On a pretence , if possible , still ...
Pagina 58
... favour turned . | secution , Jane was to be seduced into He conformed backwards and forwards treason . No transaction in our annals as the King changed his mind . He is more unjustifiable than this . If a he- assisted , while Henry ...
... favour turned . | secution , Jane was to be seduced into He conformed backwards and forwards treason . No transaction in our annals as the King changed his mind . He is more unjustifiable than this . If a he- assisted , while Henry ...
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