Three English Statesmen: A Course of Lectures on the Political History of EnglandMacmillan, 1867 - 328 էջ |
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... Charles II . Whatever of moral grandeur there was in the French Revolution was followed by Bonapartism and Talleyrand . Even while the great men are on the scene , violence and one-そう B sidedness mar their greatness . Let us pray that ...
... Charles II . Whatever of moral grandeur there was in the French Revolution was followed by Bonapartism and Talleyrand . Even while the great men are on the scene , violence and one-そう B sidedness mar their greatness . Let us pray that ...
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... Charles I. It was part of a European conflict between two great opposing currents of opinion , one running to- wards the future , the other towards the past . The Reformation , like all really great move- ments , was religious ; but ...
... Charles I. It was part of a European conflict between two great opposing currents of opinion , one running to- wards the future , the other towards the past . The Reformation , like all really great move- ments , was religious ; but ...
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... Charles : the ominous episode of the Spanish match ; the scenes of duplicity which followed , already re- vealing the dark spot in Charles's character ; the ascendancy of Buckingham , safely intrenched in favour , more safely than ever ...
... Charles : the ominous episode of the Spanish match ; the scenes of duplicity which followed , already re- vealing the dark spot in Charles's character ; the ascendancy of Buckingham , safely intrenched in favour , more safely than ever ...
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... Charles broke with his parliament , passionately dissolved it amidst a scene of tempestuous violence ( the Speaker being held down in his chair till the protest of the Com- mons had been made ) , and by proclamation forbade any man to ...
... Charles broke with his parliament , passionately dissolved it amidst a scene of tempestuous violence ( the Speaker being held down in his chair till the protest of the Com- mons had been made ) , and by proclamation forbade any man to ...
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... Charles dismissed his parliament , the day was going hard with the Protestant cause in Germany , the great scene of the conflict , to which the eyes of all Protestants were wistfully and sadly 12 THREE ENGLISH STATESMEN .
... Charles dismissed his parliament , the day was going hard with the Protestant cause in Germany , the great scene of the conflict , to which the eyes of all Protestants were wistfully and sadly 12 THREE ENGLISH STATESMEN .
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Էջ 245 - the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
Էջ 238 - We must not count with certainty on a continuance of our present prosperity during such an interval ; but unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from the situation of Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace, than we may at the present moment.
Էջ 70 - Cant, Cloth-worship, or whatever ugly name it have, has gone about incurably sick ever since ; and is now at length, in these generations, very rapidly dying.
Էջ 71 - That it was our duty, if ever the Lord brought us back again in peace, to call Charles Stuart, that man of blood, to an account for that blood he had shed, and mischief he had done to his utmost, against the Lord's Cause and People in these poor Nations.
Էջ 281 - The conversation of the principal persons of the country all tends to encourage this system of blood ; and the conversation even at my table, where you will suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, &C., and if a priest has been put to death, the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company.
Էջ 28 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government against law...
Էջ 271 - If punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were to be sought for, it could not be found in our law, now that torture is happily abolished.
Էջ 319 - He had a brave regiment of his countrymen, most of them freeholders and freeholders' sons, and who upon matter of conscience engaged in this quarrel ; and thus being well armed within by the satisfaction of their own consciences, and without by good iron arms, they would, as one man, stand firmly and charge desperately.
Էջ 8 - Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died.
Էջ 111 - I am confident that it came so into your hands ; and was not judged by you to be from counterfeited or feigned Necessity, but by Divine Providence and Dispensation. And this I speak with more earnestness, because I speak for God and not for men.