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Page xi
... parliament ? Do they not plainly labour to exempt churchmen from the magistrate ? Yea , so presumptuously as to question and menace officers that represent the king's person , for using their authority against drunken priests ? " Yet ...
... parliament ? Do they not plainly labour to exempt churchmen from the magistrate ? Yea , so presumptuously as to question and menace officers that represent the king's person , for using their authority against drunken priests ? " Yet ...
Page 15
... parliament , for a cer- tain time only ; and consisting of forty persons , for the most part members of parliament , any one of whom may be president if the rest vote him into the chair . And there is nothing more common than for our ...
... parliament , for a cer- tain time only ; and consisting of forty persons , for the most part members of parliament , any one of whom may be president if the rest vote him into the chair . And there is nothing more common than for our ...
Page 59
... parliament , though he had killed the king and his father ; and not only so , but he dissolved the parliament , lest the matter should be inquired into . " Solomon oppressed the people with heavy taxes ; " but he spent that money upon ...
... parliament , though he had killed the king and his father ; and not only so , but he dissolved the parliament , lest the matter should be inquired into . " Solomon oppressed the people with heavy taxes ; " but he spent that money upon ...
Page 143
... parliament - house ? Do you therefore call the right of the parliament , to whom . it properly and originally belongs to take care of the liberty of the people both in peace and war , a military power ? But it is no wonder that those ...
... parliament - house ? Do you therefore call the right of the parliament , to whom . it properly and originally belongs to take care of the liberty of the people both in peace and war , a military power ? But it is no wonder that those ...
Page 165
... parliament , since the king " summons them ? " I will tell you why ; because the consuls used to indict a meeting of the senate , yet were they not lords over that council . When the king therefore summons or calls to- gether a parliament ...
... parliament , since the king " summons them ? " I will tell you why ; because the consuls used to indict a meeting of the senate , yet were they not lords over that council . When the king therefore summons or calls to- gether a parliament ...
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