The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Том 3

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Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858

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Стр. 414 - And yet this revolution, of all revolutions the least violent, has been, of all revolutions, the most beneficent. It finally decided the great question whether the popular element which had, ever since the age of Fitzwalter and De Montfort, been found in the English polity, should be destroyed by the monarchical element, or should be suffered to develop itself freely, and to become dominant.
Стр. 106 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments...
Стр. 94 - O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Стр. 125 - His conscience was not satisfied ; and he should not acquit the bishops. " If you come to that," said Austin, " look at me. I am the largest and strongest of the twelve ; and before I find such a petition as this a libel, here I will stay till I am no bigger than a tobacco pipe.
Стр. 225 - You may go to prayers, Doctor. All is over." At that moment the wind changed : a soft breeze sprang up from the south : the mist dispersed: the sun shone forth ; and under the mild light of an autumnal noon, the fleet turned back, passed round the lofty cape of Berry Head, and rode safe in the harbour of Torbay.
Стр. 125 - Halifax sprang up and waved his hat. At that signal, benches and galleries raised a shout. In a moment ten thousand persons, who crowded the great hall, replied with a still louder shout, which made the old oaken roof crack ; and in another moment the innumerable throng without set up a third huzza, which was heard at Tumple Bar.
Стр. 89 - Convocation, show that they by no means wanted tenderness for the conscientious scruples of Dissenters. But Parliament had, both in the late and in the present reign, pronounced that the sovereign was not constitutionally competent to dispense with statutes in matters ecclesiastical. The Declaration was therefore illegal; and the petitioners could not, in prudence, honour, or conscience, be parties to the solemn publishing of an illegal Declaration in the house of God, and during the time of divine...
Стр. 417 - Germany as savage as Congo or Patagonia, have been avowed from the tribune and defended by the sword. Europe has been threatened with subjugation by barbarians, compared with whom the barbarians who marched under Attila and Alboin were enlightened and humane.
Стр. 7 - I will make you fear me as well as the law," answered the King, insolently. " Do you not know that I am above the law?" "Your Majesty may be above the law," replied Somerset, "but I am not; and, while 1 obey the law, I fear nothing.
Стр. 178 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

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