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But , it is said , why not adopt milder measures ? Why , after the king had consented to so many reforms , and renounced so many oppressive prerogatives , did the parliament continue to rise in their demands , at the risk of provoking a ...
But , it is said , why not adopt milder measures ? Why , after the king had consented to so many reforms , and renounced so many oppressive prerogatives , did the parliament continue to rise in their demands , at the risk of provoking a ...
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In almost all the little commonwealths of antiquity , liberty was used as a pretext for measures directed against every thing which makes liberty valuable , for measures which stifled discussion , corrupted the administration of justice ...
In almost all the little commonwealths of antiquity , liberty was used as a pretext for measures directed against every thing which makes liberty valuable , for measures which stifled discussion , corrupted the administration of justice ...
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A popular outcry sometimes unnerves them , and sometimes makes them desperate ; it drives them to unworthy compliances , or to measures of vengeance as cruel as those which they have reason to expect . A minister in our times need not ...
A popular outcry sometimes unnerves them , and sometimes makes them desperate ; it drives them to unworthy compliances , or to measures of vengeance as cruel as those which they have reason to expect . A minister in our times need not ...
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