The Quarterly Review, Volume 139William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1875 |
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... King and his friends ; the other class has thought it unnecessary to take trouble to understand how matters looked in the eyes of the leaders of the House of Commons . I am not so vain . as to suppose that I have always succeeded in ...
... King and his friends ; the other class has thought it unnecessary to take trouble to understand how matters looked in the eyes of the leaders of the House of Commons . I am not so vain . as to suppose that I have always succeeded in ...
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... king . A King in the strength of his years , supported with great alliances abroad , established with royal issue at home , at peace with all the world , practised in the regiment of such a kingdom as mought rather enable a king by ...
... king . A King in the strength of his years , supported with great alliances abroad , established with royal issue at home , at peace with all the world , practised in the regiment of such a kingdom as mought rather enable a king by ...
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... king's private study are full of suggestive remarks in regard to the coalescence of the two kingdoms . Dealing with the practical difficulties to be encountered , he writes : - ' It sufficeth that there be an uniformity in the principal ...
... king's private study are full of suggestive remarks in regard to the coalescence of the two kingdoms . Dealing with the practical difficulties to be encountered , he writes : - ' It sufficeth that there be an uniformity in the principal ...
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... King James I. his own selected Scriptural sentence , ' Beati Pacifici . ' It was a favourite motto of the seventeenth century ; it was ever on the tongues of the foremost men of that century in Church and State but it was along their ...
... King James I. his own selected Scriptural sentence , ' Beati Pacifici . ' It was a favourite motto of the seventeenth century ; it was ever on the tongues of the foremost men of that century in Church and State but it was along their ...
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... King of Great Britain , could ' go away hence satisfied , ' having met death tranquilly in his bed , his crown safe , his son by his side . James , all along , was thoroughly awake to his own disadvan- tages , though he might be thought ...
... King of Great Britain , could ' go away hence satisfied , ' having met death tranquilly in his bed , his crown safe , his son by his side . James , all along , was thoroughly awake to his own disadvan- tages , though he might be thought ...
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