The history of England from the accession of James ii. (Vol.5 ed. by lady Trevelyan).

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Página 548 - endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the vacant kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental law-S and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne
Página 604 - New and thoroughly revised Editions; each Treasury complete in One compact Volume, fcp. 8vo. of about 900 pages, comprising about 1,800 columns of small but very legible type. Science and Literature. MAUNDER'S SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY TREASURY: A new and popular Encyclopedia of Science and the
Página 305 - Bishops received letters assuring them of the sympathy of the Presbyterians of that country, so long and so bitterly hostile to prelacy.f The people of Cornwall, a fierce, bold, and athletic race, among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm, were greatly moved by the danger of
Página 188 - is indeed as decidedly the first of allegorists as Demosthenes is the first of orators, or Shakspeare the first of dramatists. Other allegorists have shown equal in1 the palsy. On another day he felt a fire within his genuity; but no other allegorist has ever been able to CHAP. touch the heart, and to make abstractions objects of
Página 587 - peace of our streets, for the happiness of our homes, our gratitude is due, under Him who raises and pulls down nations at his pleasure, to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange. , INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME.
Página 574 - He, by whose authority these things had been done, had abdicated the government. The Prince of Orange, whom God had made the glorious instrument of delivering the nation from superstition and tyranny, had invited the Estates of the Realm to meet and to take counsel together for the securing of religion, of law, and
Página 405 - as it was thought possible that Portsmouth might be the first point of attack, three battalions of guards and a strong body of cavalry set out for that fortress. In a few hours it was known that Portsmouth was safe; and these troops then received orders to change their , route and to hasten to
Página 296 - not suffer what I say in obedience to his orders to be brought in evidence against me." " You must not capitulate with your Sovereign," said the Chancellor. "No," said the King; "I will not give any such command. If you choose to deny your own CHAP. hands, I have nothing more to say to
Página 586 - for mankind, and would make the fairest provinces of France and 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
Página 586 - revolution in the seventeenth century that we have not had a destroying revolution in the nineteenth. It is because we had freedom in the midst of servitude that we have order in the midst of anarchy. For the

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