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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... minister demanded some reasonable answer , every member held his peace . At last , the Speaker , falling on his knees , with much reverence , excused the silence of the House , abashed , as he said , at the sight of so noble a personage ...
... minister demanded some reasonable answer , every member held his peace . At last , the Speaker , falling on his knees , with much reverence , excused the silence of the House , abashed , as he said , at the sight of so noble a personage ...
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... minister , and annul the commission . Yet in the same reign in which so much spirit was shown , a magistrate of ... ministers , Par- liament condemned them without a trial ; when at length he chose to make laws by his own will only ...
... minister , and annul the commission . Yet in the same reign in which so much spirit was shown , a magistrate of ... ministers , Par- liament condemned them without a trial ; when at length he chose to make laws by his own will only ...
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... minister of bigotry of which he was himself the disciple . He taught from his own mouth the opinions which were to regulate his subjects ; he contained in his own breast the rule of orthodoxy ; and he had the triumph of confuting the ...
... minister of bigotry of which he was himself the disciple . He taught from his own mouth the opinions which were to regulate his subjects ; he contained in his own breast the rule of orthodoxy ; and he had the triumph of confuting the ...
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... minister , charged with having written a slander- ous and infamous libel against the Queen's Majesty , ' was tried for a felony , and convicted . The sentence was never executed , but the poor man , after several years ' confinement ...
... minister , charged with having written a slander- ous and infamous libel against the Queen's Majesty , ' was tried for a felony , and convicted . The sentence was never executed , but the poor man , after several years ' confinement ...
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... truth . A petition from upwards of a thousand clergymen of the Puritan persuasion was presented to the King on his road to London , praying for a reformation in the church service , ministry , livings , 32 CH . VÌ . JAMES THE FIRST .
... truth . A petition from upwards of a thousand clergymen of the Puritan persuasion was presented to the King on his road to London , praying for a reformation in the church service , ministry , livings , 32 CH . VÌ . JAMES THE FIRST .
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