An Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution: From the Reign of Henry VII to the Present Time |
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... arbitrary sway of the house of Tudor , the course of weak misrule and daring opposition , of fierce contention and alternate victory , which , marking with a line of blood the history of the Stuart dynasty , at length ---- B ended in a ...
... arbitrary sway of the house of Tudor , the course of weak misrule and daring opposition , of fierce contention and alternate victory , which , marking with a line of blood the history of the Stuart dynasty , at length ---- B ended in a ...
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... arbitrary the acts of these sovereigns , nothing was taken from the reverence due to the great council of the king , the grand inquest of the nation , and the highest court in the kingdom . The power given to Henry the Eighth , to issue ...
... arbitrary the acts of these sovereigns , nothing was taken from the reverence due to the great council of the king , the grand inquest of the nation , and the highest court in the kingdom . The power given to Henry the Eighth , to issue ...
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... arbitrary to per- sons named by the crown , does not appear to have struck any one at this time ; and Lord Bacon is lavish in his praises of the Star- Chamber , calling it one of the sagest and noblest institutions of this kingdom . But ...
... arbitrary to per- sons named by the crown , does not appear to have struck any one at this time ; and Lord Bacon is lavish in his praises of the Star- Chamber , calling it one of the sagest and noblest institutions of this kingdom . But ...
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... arbitrary exactions of which Emp- son and Dudley were the vile and execrated ' instruments . His successor , with a generous magnanimity not uncommon in a king , sent the collectors to the scaffold , and kept the money in his treasury ...
... arbitrary exactions of which Emp- son and Dudley were the vile and execrated ' instruments . His successor , with a generous magnanimity not uncommon in a king , sent the collectors to the scaffold , and kept the money in his treasury ...
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... arbitrary in our annals . Yet it affords many curious precedents of the autho- rity of Parliament . One of the first of these is the act granting tonnage and poundage . The King had levied these duties for some time by his own ...
... arbitrary in our annals . Yet it affords many curious precedents of the autho- rity of Parliament . One of the first of these is the act granting tonnage and poundage . The King had levied these duties for some time by his own ...
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Page 233 - All this is true if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.
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