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Page 56
... England , circumstances ray and the Earl of Morton , might espouse of which the effects long continued to be the Protestant opinions , or might pretend felt , and may in some degree be traced even to espouse them ; but it was from ...
... England , circumstances ray and the Earl of Morton , might espouse of which the effects long continued to be the Protestant opinions , or might pretend felt , and may in some degree be traced even to espouse them ; but it was from ...
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... England , where he was powerful . Persecution gradually changed a sect into a faction . That there was any thing in the religious opinions of the Puri- tans which rendered them hostile to mo- narchy has never been proved to our satis ...
... England , where he was powerful . Persecution gradually changed a sect into a faction . That there was any thing in the religious opinions of the Puri- tans which rendered them hostile to mo- narchy has never been proved to our satis ...
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... England was only one of a large family . In all the monarchies of Western Europe , during the middle ages , there existed restraints on the royal autho- rity , fundamental laws , and representative assemblies . In the fifteenth century ...
... England was only one of a large family . In all the monarchies of Western Europe , during the middle ages , there existed restraints on the royal autho- rity , fundamental laws , and representative assemblies . In the fifteenth century ...
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... England escaped ; but she escaped very narrowly . Happily our insular situation , and the pacific policy of James , rendered standing armies unneces- sary here , till they had been for some time kept up in the neighbouring kingdoms ...
... England escaped ; but she escaped very narrowly . Happily our insular situation , and the pacific policy of James , rendered standing armies unneces- sary here , till they had been for some time kept up in the neighbouring kingdoms ...
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... England had been undertaken to defend and restore ; the republicans of France set themselves to destroy . In England , the principles of the common law had never been disturbed , and most even of its forms had been held sacred . In ...
... England had been undertaken to defend and restore ; the republicans of France set themselves to destroy . In England , the principles of the common law had never been disturbed , and most even of its forms had been held sacred . In ...
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