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... enemy , and on which they slaughter , day by day , numbers far ex- ceeding their own of the Medes and the Persian immortals . Lastly , shuddering at the sight of the hordes of Asia descending behind the Greeks by the betrayed mountain ...
... enemy , and on which they slaughter , day by day , numbers far ex- ceeding their own of the Medes and the Persian immortals . Lastly , shuddering at the sight of the hordes of Asia descending behind the Greeks by the betrayed mountain ...
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... enemies of England ; and nothing can be more certain than that the publica- tion by them of a statement clearly proving that , at the time of their flight , they were devotedly loyal to James , and neither did nor could have ...
... enemies of England ; and nothing can be more certain than that the publica- tion by them of a statement clearly proving that , at the time of their flight , they were devotedly loyal to James , and neither did nor could have ...
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... , could be put in force at any time by the Government , as we have just seen in the case of the Roman Catholic lawyers who had pleaded against James's title in the Galway confisca- tion case , or by any spiteful enemy , in 32.
... , could be put in force at any time by the Government , as we have just seen in the case of the Roman Catholic lawyers who had pleaded against James's title in the Galway confisca- tion case , or by any spiteful enemy , in 32.
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... enemy , in the case of an individual Roman Catholic . Strafford , shortly before this time , coerced the Roman Catholics to submit to a tax he proposed to establish , by the threat that , in the event of their refusal , he would ...
... enemy , in the case of an individual Roman Catholic . Strafford , shortly before this time , coerced the Roman Catholics to submit to a tax he proposed to establish , by the threat that , in the event of their refusal , he would ...
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... if victorious . This I think is the sole advantage Charles has had over his enemies . Their success enabled them to de- monstrate that their policy was to end in the utter subversion of the Constitution , and the substitution of sword 36.
... if victorious . This I think is the sole advantage Charles has had over his enemies . Their success enabled them to de- monstrate that their policy was to end in the utter subversion of the Constitution , and the substitution of sword 36.
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Page 169 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 5 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Page 163 - And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood ; which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk : 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Page 132 - Parliaments, imprisonments and prosecution of members, ship-money, an arbitrary administration; these were loudly complained of: but the grievances which tended chiefly to inflame the Parliament and nation, especially the latter, were the surplice, the rails placed about the altar, the bows exacted on approaching it, the liturgy, the breach of the sabbath, embroidered copes, lawn sleeves, the use of the ring in marriage, and of the cross in baptism. On account of these...
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Page 96 - Come every hill-plaid, and True heart that wears one, Come every steel blade, and Strong hand that bears one.
Page 95 - Cameron's gathering" rose ! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard too have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which...
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Page 39 - Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae ; The hawthorn's budding in the glen, And milk-white is the slae : The meanest hind in fair Scotland May rove their sweets amang ; But I the Queen of a' Scotland, Maun lie in prison strang.
Page 3 - ... the superior part has a natural right to govern, the inferior part has a natural right to be governed: and a rude but adequate tests of superiority and inferiority is provided in the relative strength of the different orders of human beings.