Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 124
... force Episcopacy on the Scotch , had an origin so noble . The cause is to be sought in some circum- stances which attended the Reformation in England , circumstances of which the effects long continued to be felt , and may in some ...
... force Episcopacy on the Scotch , had an origin so noble . The cause is to be sought in some circum- stances which attended the Reformation in England , circumstances of which the effects long continued to be felt , and may in some ...
Pagina 130
... force of his character , the fortunate situation in which he stood with respect to foreign powers , and the vast resources which the suppression of the monasteries placed at his disposal , enabled him to oppress both the religious ...
... force of his character , the fortunate situation in which he stood with respect to foreign powers , and the vast resources which the suppression of the monasteries placed at his disposal , enabled him to oppress both the religious ...
Pagina 151
... force . There would have been a scuffle ; and it might not , under such circumstances , have been in his power , even if it had been in his inclina- tion , to prevent a scuffle from ending in a massacre . Fortunately for his fame ...
... force . There would have been a scuffle ; and it might not , under such circumstances , have been in his power , even if it had been in his inclina- tion , to prevent a scuffle from ending in a massacre . Fortunately for his fame ...
Pagina 154
... force as this was a far stronger restraint on the regal power than any legislative assembly . The army , now the most formidable in- strument of the executive power , was then the most formidable check on that power . Resistance to an ...
... force as this was a far stronger restraint on the regal power than any legislative assembly . The army , now the most formidable in- strument of the executive power , was then the most formidable check on that power . Resistance to an ...
Pagina 155
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. few great nobles , a force of ten thousand armed men was raised in a week . If the King were , like our Edward the Second and Richard the Second , generally odious , he could not procure a single ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. few great nobles , a force of ten thousand armed men was raised in a week . If the King were , like our Edward the Second and Richard the Second , generally odious , he could not procure a single ...
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