An Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution, from the reign of Henry VII. to the present timeLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1865 |
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... less cruel victory , which , marking with a line of blood the history of the Stuart dynasty , at length ended in a peaceable revolution , and the establishment of regular liberty . But those who have seen the harvest can have no doubt ...
... less cruel victory , which , marking with a line of blood the history of the Stuart dynasty , at length ended in a peaceable revolution , and the establishment of regular liberty . But those who have seen the harvest can have no doubt ...
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... less invidious in their exercise than those of any other nobility in Europe . It is , I am firmly persuaded , to this pecu- liarly democratical character of the English monarchy that we are indebted for its long permanence , its regular ...
... less invidious in their exercise than those of any other nobility in Europe . It is , I am firmly persuaded , to this pecu- liarly democratical character of the English monarchy that we are indebted for its long permanence , its regular ...
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... less disgraceful to mankind than it would have been to have made the white and red roses the subject , instead of the symbols , of hostility , and affords but too much ground for the assertion of a democratic writer , that hereditary ...
... less disgraceful to mankind than it would have been to have made the white and red roses the subject , instead of the symbols , of hostility , and affords but too much ground for the assertion of a democratic writer , that hereditary ...
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... less than the Cardinal had asked . In 1526 , Wolsey sent commissioners by his own authority to levy a sixth part of the goods of the laity , and a tenth part of the goods of the clergy ; but the commissioners were resisted , and Henry ...
... less than the Cardinal had asked . In 1526 , Wolsey sent commissioners by his own authority to levy a sixth part of the goods of the laity , and a tenth part of the goods of the clergy ; but the commissioners were resisted , and Henry ...
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... less did she permit any proposal of alteration in the Church ; and she repeatedly imprisoned , or procured to be imprisoned , those who gainsayed her high pleasure in these mat- ters . * She dispensed with those laws which were ...
... less did she permit any proposal of alteration in the Church ; and she repeatedly imprisoned , or procured to be imprisoned , those who gainsayed her high pleasure in these mat- ters . * She dispensed with those laws which were ...
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