Three English Statesmen: A Course of Lectures on the Political History of EnglandMacmillan, 1867 - 328 էջ |
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... rule ; the " great , warm , and ruffling parliament , " as Whitelocke calls it , by which those encroachments were withstood ; the Petition of Right , that complement of the Great Charter , which declares that Englishmen shall never be ...
... rule ; the " great , warm , and ruffling parliament , " as Whitelocke calls it , by which those encroachments were withstood ; the Petition of Right , that complement of the Great Charter , which declares that Englishmen shall never be ...
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... rule or medium whereby to give God or the king his right . " And again , he draws a comparison between the dignity of angels and that of kings from which it is plain that bishop- rics are not in the gift of the angels . This in the ...
... rule or medium whereby to give God or the king his right . " And again , he draws a comparison between the dignity of angels and that of kings from which it is plain that bishop- rics are not in the gift of the angels . This in the ...
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... rules of government , they will be found to be frequent in combustions , full of massacres and of the tragical ends of princes . " I need not make selections from a speech so well known as that of Pym on the trial of Strafford . But ...
... rules of government , they will be found to be frequent in combustions , full of massacres and of the tragical ends of princes . " I need not make selections from a speech so well known as that of Pym on the trial of Strafford . But ...
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... his evil counsel , had brought the king into a necessity ; and by no rules of justice can be allowed to gain this ad- vantage by his own fault , as to make that a ground of his justification which is a great part of PYM . 27.
... his evil counsel , had brought the king into a necessity ; and by no rules of justice can be allowed to gain this ad- vantage by his own fault , as to make that a ground of his justification which is a great part of PYM . 27.
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... rule , preserve his reverence for law , and his desire to reign under it ? It was because he was one of a law - loving people . Did he , in spite of fearful provocation , show on the whole remark- able humanity ? It was because he was ...
... rule , preserve his reverence for law , and his desire to reign under it ? It was because he was one of a law - loving people . Did he , in spite of fearful provocation , show on the whole remark- able humanity ? It was because he was ...
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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.