An analysis of the Stuart Period of England History1860 |
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... offered to Charles at Newcastle : 3 , The disposal of the king's person voted to be in the parliament Page 139 SECTION XXII . The Civil War in 1646. 1 , Fairfax com- pletes the reduction of the West : 2 , Surrender of Oxford and end of ...
... offered to Charles at Newcastle : 3 , The disposal of the king's person voted to be in the parliament Page 139 SECTION XXII . The Civil War in 1646. 1 , Fairfax com- pletes the reduction of the West : 2 , Surrender of Oxford and end of ...
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... offered to Charles by the parliament and the Scotch commissioners .. .. Page 144 SECTION XXIV . The second Civil War , 1648. 1 , The ex- ecutive government in a committee of safety : 2 , General in- quietude of the nation : 3 , Rising ...
... offered to Charles by the parliament and the Scotch commissioners .. .. Page 144 SECTION XXIV . The second Civil War , 1648. 1 , The ex- ecutive government in a committee of safety : 2 , General in- quietude of the nation : 3 , Rising ...
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... offered strong oppo- sition to any warnings at all . Monteagle , however , and as is supposed , others beside , were warned of coming danger ; Mont- eagle , by means of a letter forwarded to him ten days before the meeting of parliament ...
... offered strong oppo- sition to any warnings at all . Monteagle , however , and as is supposed , others beside , were warned of coming danger ; Mont- eagle , by means of a letter forwarded to him ten days before the meeting of parliament ...
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... offered £ 200,000 , which was accepted by the king . Two points of importance yet remained to be determined ; what security could the Commons obtain that these prerogatives so purchased , should not again be exercised , for the court ...
... offered £ 200,000 , which was accepted by the king . Two points of importance yet remained to be determined ; what security could the Commons obtain that these prerogatives so purchased , should not again be exercised , for the court ...
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... offered a thousand pounds to Sir John Wood , to take Overbury's life in a duel , but Wood refused " to go to Tyburn for any woman " . It was then proposed to send him out of the country on public business ; he refused to go , and was ...
... offered a thousand pounds to Sir John Wood , to take Overbury's life in a duel , but Wood refused " to go to Tyburn for any woman " . It was then proposed to send him out of the country on public business ; he refused to go , and was ...
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Page 308 - 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 273 - 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 357 - 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 229 - 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 230 - 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 230 - ... 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 230 - 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 316 - 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 71 - ... 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 229 - ... 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...