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Those who followed , contented them- selves with improving on the original plan . They found models at home , and therefore they did not look for them abroad . But when enlightened men on the continent began to think about political ...
Those who followed , contented them- selves with improving on the original plan . They found models at home , and therefore they did not look for them abroad . But when enlightened men on the continent began to think about political ...
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... century and a half ; yet her General Assembly has not , during that period , given half so much trouble to the government as the Convocation of the Church of England gave to it during the thirty years which followed the Revolution .
... century and a half ; yet her General Assembly has not , during that period , given half so much trouble to the government as the Convocation of the Church of England gave to it during the thirty years which followed the Revolution .
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The feeble struggles and insults of James irritated instead of suppressing it ; and the events which immediately followed the accession of his son , portended a contest of no common severity , between a king resolved to be absolute ...
The feeble struggles and insults of James irritated instead of suppressing it ; and the events which immediately followed the accession of his son , portended a contest of no common severity , between a king resolved to be absolute ...
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If he had lived through the scenes that followed , we have little doubt that he would have con- demned himself to share the exile and beggary of the royal family ; that he would then have returned to oppose all their measures ; that he ...
If he had lived through the scenes that followed , we have little doubt that he would have con- demned himself to share the exile and beggary of the royal family ; that he would then have returned to oppose all their measures ; that he ...
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... even if they could have accurately foreseen all that followed , their deci- sion ought to have been the same . Under any circumstances , we should have preferred Cromwell to Charles . But there could be no comparison between ...
... even if they could have accurately foreseen all that followed , their deci- sion ought to have been the same . Under any circumstances , we should have preferred Cromwell to Charles . But there could be no comparison between ...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1854 |
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