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... Scots for a Union : 6 , Apology of the Commons to the King , touching their privileges : 7 , Further penal laws against Papists : 8 , Discussion on Dr. Cowell's " Interpreter " : 9 , A pro- position to abolish the Feudal burthens Page ...
... Scots for a Union : 6 , Apology of the Commons to the King , touching their privileges : 7 , Further penal laws against Papists : 8 , Discussion on Dr. Cowell's " Interpreter " : 9 , A pro- position to abolish the Feudal burthens Page ...
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... beaten by the Army , 1647 . 1 , The Scots deliver Charles to the parliamentary commissioners : 2 , Contention between the parliament and the army : 3 , Charles carried off by the army to Newmarket : 4 , ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS . ix .
... beaten by the Army , 1647 . 1 , The Scots deliver Charles to the parliamentary commissioners : 2 , Contention between the parliament and the army : 3 , Charles carried off by the army to Newmarket : 4 , ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS . ix .
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... Scots at Preston : 5 , Treaty of Newport : 6 , The House of Commons " purged " by colonel Pride : 7 , The Rump votes that the king be brought to trial : 8 , Gradual growth of a desire to overturn the monarchy Page 154 ·· .. SECTION XXV ...
... Scots at Preston : 5 , Treaty of Newport : 6 , The House of Commons " purged " by colonel Pride : 7 , The Rump votes that the king be brought to trial : 8 , Gradual growth of a desire to overturn the monarchy Page 154 ·· .. SECTION XXV ...
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... Scottish parliament passes severe laws against the Cove- nanters : 4 , Severe punishment inflicted upon Oates and Danger- field : 5 , Meeting of James's first and only parliament .. Page 277 SECTION II . Rebellions of Argyle and ...
... Scottish parliament passes severe laws against the Cove- nanters : 4 , Severe punishment inflicted upon Oates and Danger- field : 5 , Meeting of James's first and only parliament .. Page 277 SECTION II . Rebellions of Argyle and ...
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... Scots to the Union of the two countries . Modern objections to the terms of the Union . The impeachment of Dr. Sacheverell , a contest between the two theories of government . The Treaty of Utrecht characterised . Of the Whigs and ...
... Scots to the Union of the two countries . Modern objections to the terms of the Union . The impeachment of Dr. Sacheverell , a contest between the two theories of government . The Treaty of Utrecht characterised . Of the Whigs and ...
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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...