Three English Statesmen: A Course of Lectures on the Political History of EnglandMacmillan, 1867 - 328 էջ |
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... leadership of the nation in less noble hands ? . We must not regard this revolution merely as the struggle of the English House of Com- mons against the tyranny of Charles I. It was part of a European conflict between two great opposing ...
... leadership of the nation in less noble hands ? . We must not regard this revolution merely as the struggle of the English House of Com- mons against the tyranny of Charles I. It was part of a European conflict between two great opposing ...
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... leader of the Commons , Sir John Eliot , was thrown into the Tower . There he sank at last beneath the bad air and the chills of his prison - house , constantly re- fusing , as a champion of the law , to do homage to lawlessness by ...
... leader of the Commons , Sir John Eliot , was thrown into the Tower . There he sank at last beneath the bad air and the chills of his prison - house , constantly re- fusing , as a champion of the law , to do homage to lawlessness by ...
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... leader . They had one whom all accepted in John Pym . Pym had been second only to Sir John Eliot as a leader of the patriot party in the reign of James . He was one of the twelve deputies of the Commons when James cried , with insight ...
... leader . They had one whom all accepted in John Pym . Pym had been second only to Sir John Eliot as a leader of the patriot party in the reign of James . He was one of the twelve deputies of the Commons when James cried , with insight ...
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... leaders of this revolution sprang . I note it , not to claim for principle the patronage of birth and wealth , but to show how strong that principle must have been which could thus move birth and wealth away from their natural bias . It ...
... leaders of this revolution sprang . I note it , not to claim for principle the patronage of birth and wealth , but to show how strong that principle must have been which could thus move birth and wealth away from their natural bias . It ...
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... leaders of opinion , that the historical and an- tiquarian library of Sir Robert Cotton was to the English . And of the group of illustrious men who gathered in that library , none had been a deeper student of its treasures than Pym ...
... leaders of opinion , that the historical and an- tiquarian library of Sir Robert Cotton was to the English . And of the group of illustrious men who gathered in that library , none had been a deeper student of its treasures than Pym ...
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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.