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Page iii
... court - sycophants , or the routine intermeddlers with poli- tics . His indignation was roused at beholding the tranquillity of three kingdoms disturbed by the perverse ambition of one man ; and , afterwards , when the contest was ...
... court - sycophants , or the routine intermeddlers with poli- tics . His indignation was roused at beholding the tranquillity of three kingdoms disturbed by the perverse ambition of one man ; and , afterwards , when the contest was ...
Page iv
... courts , or camps , or senates , or crowded cities , the spirit which makes him what he is . It constitutes the very essence of his nature . He cannot lose it . Over whatever he does it will cast a glory that shall dignify the iv ...
... courts , or camps , or senates , or crowded cities , the spirit which makes him what he is . It constitutes the very essence of his nature . He cannot lose it . Over whatever he does it will cast a glory that shall dignify the iv ...
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... courts and privy councils , to bring into their grasp the high and principal offices of the kingdom ? Have they not been known of late to check the common law , to slight and brave the indiminishable majesty of our highest court , the ...
... courts and privy councils , to bring into their grasp the high and principal offices of the kingdom ? Have they not been known of late to check the common law , to slight and brave the indiminishable majesty of our highest court , the ...
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... court , whose principal aim it was to depose the Almighty from his throne in the hearts of their countrymen , laboured with all the earnestness of hirelings to dim the glory of Milton , and those other holy and magnanimous men , who ...
... court , whose principal aim it was to depose the Almighty from his throne in the hearts of their countrymen , laboured with all the earnestness of hirelings to dim the glory of Milton , and those other holy and magnanimous men , who ...
Page xxvii
... court , to make any reference to the great storehouse and armoury of the Roundheads . Cast , by these means , into temporary oblivion , they were long suffered to remain in it . For most literary men are too intent on advancing their ...
... court , to make any reference to the great storehouse and armoury of the Roundheads . Cast , by these means , into temporary oblivion , they were long suffered to remain in it . For most literary men are too intent on advancing their ...
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