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... CHURCH By VISCOUNT ST . CYRES , M.A. , Senior Student of Christ Church , Oxford French religion in the earlier half of the seventeenth century . State of religious parties ib . Cartesianism , its upholders and adversaries 222 72 73 ...
... CHURCH By VISCOUNT ST . CYRES , M.A. , Senior Student of Christ Church , Oxford French religion in the earlier half of the seventeenth century . State of religious parties ib . Cartesianism , its upholders and adversaries 222 72 73 ...
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... Church in danger " Harley's " Plan . " His character and aims Harley ( Oxford ) Lord Treasurer Fall of Marlborough • Character of St John ( Bolingbroke ) Oxford and Bolingbroke Parliament . The Schism Act The Whigs and the House of ...
... Church in danger " Harley's " Plan . " His character and aims Harley ( Oxford ) Lord Treasurer Fall of Marlborough • Character of St John ( Bolingbroke ) Oxford and Bolingbroke Parliament . The Schism Act The Whigs and the House of ...
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... Church , his personal morality underwent a most welcome improvement ; but the new influence was unfortunately answerable for the worst political mistake in his reign , which contained so many . For , unfortunately , the conversion of ...
... Church , his personal morality underwent a most welcome improvement ; but the new influence was unfortunately answerable for the worst political mistake in his reign , which contained so many . For , unfortunately , the conversion of ...
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... churches had been closed . Between 1665 and 1685 nearly 200 edicts were issued dealing with " la religion prétendue réformée , and nearly all of these curtail some liberty or impose some new constraint : here they destroy a church ...
... churches had been closed . Between 1665 and 1685 nearly 200 edicts were issued dealing with " la religion prétendue réformée , and nearly all of these curtail some liberty or impose some new constraint : here they destroy a church ...
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... Church . Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon saw with alarm the prospect of power coming into his hands , for it would mean a complete reaction against the policy which the dying monarch had pursued in Church and State both at home and ...
... Church . Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon saw with alarm the prospect of power coming into his hands , for it would mean a complete reaction against the policy which the dying monarch had pursued in Church and State both at home and ...
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