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... seen as politically dangerous , but there is a stubborn refusal to accept this view : hence the failure of James II's Declarations of Indulgence , the efforts to pass the Exclusion Bill , and James's fall in 1688. Without violence a ...
... seen as politically dangerous , but there is a stubborn refusal to accept this view : hence the failure of James II's Declarations of Indulgence , the efforts to pass the Exclusion Bill , and James's fall in 1688. Without violence a ...
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... seen to form a group , not merely because they are a set of eulogies , but also because the celebrated virtues contribute to a consistent view of what humans should ethically be , and because Jonson's stylistic methods of presenting ...
... seen to form a group , not merely because they are a set of eulogies , but also because the celebrated virtues contribute to a consistent view of what humans should ethically be , and because Jonson's stylistic methods of presenting ...
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... seen as ' Pious Brother , sure the best / Who ever bore that Name ' ( ll . 36—7 ) . He is utterly loyal and ' Guiltless of Greatness ' , but his time having come he is to be seen as ' Martial Ancus ' to Charles's Numa ( ll . 45 , 465-6 ) ...
... seen as ' Pious Brother , sure the best / Who ever bore that Name ' ( ll . 36—7 ) . He is utterly loyal and ' Guiltless of Greatness ' , but his time having come he is to be seen as ' Martial Ancus ' to Charles's Numa ( ll . 45 , 465-6 ) ...
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