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Not a single session of parliament had passed without some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate . The right of petition was grossly violated . Arbitrary judgments , exorbitant fines , and unwarranted imprisonments ...
Not a single session of parliament had passed without some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate . The right of petition was grossly violated . Arbitrary judgments , exorbitant fines , and unwarranted imprisonments ...
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... to the rule , however restricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The Long Parliament acted on the same principle , and is entitled to the same praise . They could not trust the king . He had no doubt passed salutary laws .
... to the rule , however restricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The Long Parliament acted on the same principle , and is entitled to the same praise . They could not trust the king . He had no doubt passed salutary laws .
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slightest actions the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest - who had been destined , before heaven and earth were created to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away .
slightest actions the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest - who had been destined , before heaven and earth were created to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away .
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But , when his opinions seemed likely to prevail , he passed on to other subjects , and abandoned prelacy to the crowd of writers who now hastened to insult a falling party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing ...
But , when his opinions seemed likely to prevail , he passed on to other subjects , and abandoned prelacy to the crowd of writers who now hastened to insult a falling party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing ...
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It is the very essence of a species of composition , in which every idea is coloured by passing through the me- dium of an imagined mind . To this fundamental law every other regulation is subordinate . The situations which most ...
It is the very essence of a species of composition , in which every idea is coloured by passing through the me- dium of an imagined mind . To this fundamental law every other regulation is subordinate . The situations which most ...
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