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... ministers , and finally , we have the veto of the king more than once exercised , and even a sort of debate of the Commons upon the assertion of the prerogative . " It has been the purpose of the writer to construct , for the use of ...
... ministers , and finally , we have the veto of the king more than once exercised , and even a sort of debate of the Commons upon the assertion of the prerogative . " It has been the purpose of the writer to construct , for the use of ...
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... ministers , and finally , we have the veto of the king more than once exercised , and even a sort of debate of the Commons upon the assertion of the prerogative . " It has been the purpose of the writer to construct , for the use of ...
... ministers , and finally , we have the veto of the king more than once exercised , and even a sort of debate of the Commons upon the assertion of the prerogative . " It has been the purpose of the writer to construct , for the use of ...
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... minister : 2 , Many complaints made by the Commons , and the parliament dismissed .. ·· .. .. Page 20 SECTION VII . The disgrace of Somerset and Raleigh , 1616— 1618. 1 , Somerset found guilty of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury : 2 ...
... minister : 2 , Many complaints made by the Commons , and the parliament dismissed .. ·· .. .. Page 20 SECTION VII . The disgrace of Somerset and Raleigh , 1616— 1618. 1 , Somerset found guilty of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury : 2 ...
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... minister , was the seizure in London of eight hundred vaga- bonds , who were sent to serve in the fleet . 2. James's journey from Edinburgh . Eager as James was to proceed to England , which he held to be the Land of Promise , his ...
... minister , was the seizure in London of eight hundred vaga- bonds , who were sent to serve in the fleet . 2. James's journey from Edinburgh . Eager as James was to proceed to England , which he held to be the Land of Promise , his ...
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... ministers . Dorset was the lord - treasurer , but secretary Cecil , created successively Lord Cecil , Viscount Cranborne , and in 1605 , Earl of Salisbury , was always regarded as his prime minister and chief counsellor . Cecil had been ...
... ministers . Dorset was the lord - treasurer , but secretary Cecil , created successively Lord Cecil , Viscount Cranborne , and in 1605 , Earl of Salisbury , was always regarded as his prime minister and chief counsellor . Cecil had been ...
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Page 304 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 269 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 353 - Will you, to the utmost of your power, maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion, established by law...
Page 225 - We would speak first of the Puritans, the most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the world has ever produced. The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface. He that runs may read them ; nor have there been wanting attentive and malicious observers to point them out. For many years after the Restoration, they were the theme of unmeasured invective and derision. They were exposed to the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and...
Page 226 - He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Page 226 - ... eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious...
Page 226 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion, the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 312 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 67 - ... take such oath or to give attendance or be confined or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusal thereof. And that no freeman in any such manner as is before mentioned be imprisoned or detained.
Page 225 - ... materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen, — who trampled down king, church, and aristocracy, — who, in the short intervals of domestic sedition and rebellion, made the name of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs of freemasonry, or the dresses of friars. We regret that these badges were not more attractive. We regret that...