A Short History of ParliamentHarper, 1887 - 345 páginas |
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... leadership of the Earls of Leicester and Gloucester , demanded from the king a long list of reforms , including the appoint- ment of a small permanent ministerial council , to which was to be intrusted the entire management of the ...
... leadership of the Earls of Leicester and Gloucester , demanded from the king a long list of reforms , including the appoint- ment of a small permanent ministerial council , to which was to be intrusted the entire management of the ...
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... leader . In Gascony he had shown himself a statesman and general of no ordinary skill . Past history proved that in the pursuit of right he would go far and fearlessly , even in defiance of the royal will . Above all , it was felt that ...
... leader . In Gascony he had shown himself a statesman and general of no ordinary skill . Past history proved that in the pursuit of right he would go far and fearlessly , even in defiance of the royal will . Above all , it was felt that ...
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... leaders . Ambition , envy , personal hatred , re- turning loyalty , discontent , treachery , and headstrong rash- ness , all whirled together in a mad walpurgis dance , which ended in the rout at Evesham and the death of Earl Simon ...
... leaders . Ambition , envy , personal hatred , re- turning loyalty , discontent , treachery , and headstrong rash- ness , all whirled together in a mad walpurgis dance , which ended in the rout at Evesham and the death of Earl Simon ...
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... leaders of the Opposition , and had served as powerful checks on the ambition of the Crown . The old race of haughty , independent Churchmen had died out as well , and were succeeded by men who looked to the royal favor for advancement ...
... leaders of the Opposition , and had served as powerful checks on the ambition of the Crown . The old race of haughty , independent Churchmen had died out as well , and were succeeded by men who looked to the royal favor for advancement ...
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... leaders of the English nation ; the king and his ministers had taken their place , and worked wholly by means of the ... leadership of Thomas Cromwell . The policy thus inaugurated , of using Parliament as the instrument of despotism ...
... leaders of the English nation ; the king and his ministers had taken their place , and worked wholly by means of the ... leadership of Thomas Cromwell . The policy thus inaugurated , of using Parliament as the instrument of despotism ...
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Página 99 - May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majesty's pardon, that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your Majesty is pleased to demand of me.
Página 187 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Página 238 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed. ' I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored.
Página 187 - I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience. " Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining ; but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided.
Página 99 - since I see all the birds are flown, I do expect from you that you shall send them unto me as soon as they return hither. But I assure you, on the word of a King, I never did intend any force, but shall proceed against them in a legal and fair way, for I never meant any other.
Página 133 - 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.
Página 226 - This resistance to your arbitrary system of taxation might have been foreseen : it was obvious from the nature of things, and of mankind ; and above all, from the whiggish spirit flourishing in that country. The spirit which now resists your taxation in America, is the same which formerly opposed loans, benevolences, and ship-money in...