The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green Longmans, & Roberts, 1849 - Great Britain |
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... objects was to obtain a repeal of the The Habeas Habeas Corpus Act , which he hated , as it was natural Corpus that a tyrant should hate the most stringent curb that ever legislation imposed on tyranny . This feeling re- mained deeply ...
... objects was to obtain a repeal of the The Habeas Habeas Corpus Act , which he hated , as it was natural Corpus that a tyrant should hate the most stringent curb that ever legislation imposed on tyranny . This feeling re- mained deeply ...
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... object of filial reverence . Three more years filled with injuries , and with insults more galling than injuries , were scarcely sufficient to dis- solve the ties which bound the Cavalier gentry to the throne . The Speaker repeated the ...
... object of filial reverence . Three more years filled with injuries , and with insults more galling than injuries , were scarcely sufficient to dis- solve the ties which bound the Cavalier gentry to the throne . The Speaker repeated the ...
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... object , very judiciously took different paths . They made a partition of the court . Bonrepaux lived chiefly with Rochester and Rochester's adherents . Barillon's connections were chiefly with the opposite faction . The consequence was ...
... object , very judiciously took different paths . They made a partition of the court . Bonrepaux lived chiefly with Rochester and Rochester's adherents . Barillon's connections were chiefly with the opposite faction . The consequence was ...
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... objects of charity . Nor had James the plea which may be urged in extenuation of the guilt of almost all other persecutors : for the religion which he commanded the refugees to profess , on pain of being left to starve , was not his own ...
... objects of charity . Nor had James the plea which may be urged in extenuation of the guilt of almost all other persecutors : for the religion which he commanded the refugees to profess , on pain of being left to starve , was not his own ...
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... object of James , there- fore , was to obtain from the courts of common law an acknowledgment that , to this extent at least , he pos- sessed the dispensing power . CHAP . VI . 1686 . of re- But , though his pretensions were moderate ...
... object of James , there- fore , was to obtain from the courts of common law an acknowledgment that , to this extent at least , he pos- sessed the dispensing power . CHAP . VI . 1686 . of re- But , though his pretensions were moderate ...
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