The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 126A. Constable, 1867 |
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... light on the obscure , and giving pre- cision to the doubtful , portions of the Georgian era . The Waldegrave and Walpole papers , the correspondence of Pitt , of Fox , of Eldon , and of Addington , the Buckingham papers , and the ...
... light on the obscure , and giving pre- cision to the doubtful , portions of the Georgian era . The Waldegrave and Walpole papers , the correspondence of Pitt , of Fox , of Eldon , and of Addington , the Buckingham papers , and the ...
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... light . Nor , indeed , was duplicity ne- cessary on the King's part . The humours , the jealousies , and the antipathies of the rival statesmen did more for the ulti- mate ascendancy of the King than duplicity or astuteness of the King ...
... light . Nor , indeed , was duplicity ne- cessary on the King's part . The humours , the jealousies , and the antipathies of the rival statesmen did more for the ulti- mate ascendancy of the King than duplicity or astuteness of the King ...
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... light ; and it was by the upper classes that the House of Commons was elected . The old feeling of the Shippens and the Windhams against a standing army under a foreign prince animated some . Dread of taxes and debt and fundholders ...
... light ; and it was by the upper classes that the House of Commons was elected . The old feeling of the Shippens and the Windhams against a standing army under a foreign prince animated some . Dread of taxes and debt and fundholders ...
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... light the King's personal qualities , po- litical opinions , and estimate of his Minister . We will begin with those letters in which the King gives expression to his affection for and confidence in his Minister . The first letter we ...
... light the King's personal qualities , po- litical opinions , and estimate of his Minister . We will begin with those letters in which the King gives expression to his affection for and confidence in his Minister . The first letter we ...
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... light the King's resolute opinions on the most important events of Lord North's Administration , viz . the conflict with the City arising out of the dispute with Wilkes , and the conduct of the American War . There is no more curious ...
... light the King's resolute opinions on the most important events of Lord North's Administration , viz . the conflict with the City arising out of the dispute with Wilkes , and the conduct of the American War . There is no more curious ...
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Page 119 - GENERAL Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
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Page 366 - I will venture to affirm, that what is commonly called the technical part of legislation, is incomparably more difficult than what may be styled the ethical. In other words, it is far easier to conceive justly what would be useful law, than so to construct that same law that it may accomplish the design of the lawgiver.
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