Letters on the Study and Use of History: On Exile ; the Spirit of Patriotism ; Idea of a Patriot King ; State of Parties in 1714Alexander Murray, 1870 - 280 pages |
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... crown , and bring our liberties , by a natural and necessary progression , into more real , though less apparent danger , than they were in before the revolution . The excessive ill husbandry practised from the very beginning of King ...
... crown , and bring our liberties , by a natural and necessary progression , into more real , though less apparent danger , than they were in before the revolution . The excessive ill husbandry practised from the very beginning of King ...
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... crown with the management of so great a revenue , but also the loss of liberty as the natural and necessary consequence of national corruption . These two examples explain sufficiently what they are intended to explain . It only remains ...
... crown with the management of so great a revenue , but also the loss of liberty as the natural and necessary consequence of national corruption . These two examples explain sufficiently what they are intended to explain . It only remains ...
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... crown for showing his wife naked to his favourite , and from Candaules and Gyges he hastens , or rather takes a great leap , down to Cyrus . Something like a thread of history of the Medes and then of the Persians , to the flight of ...
... crown for showing his wife naked to his favourite , and from Candaules and Gyges he hastens , or rather takes a great leap , down to Cyrus . Something like a thread of history of the Medes and then of the Persians , to the flight of ...
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... crown of England a little before the close of the fifteenth century , and Lewis began his reign in France about twenty years sooner . These reigns made remarkable periods in the histories of both nations . To reduce the power ...
... crown of England a little before the close of the fifteenth century , and Lewis began his reign in France about twenty years sooner . These reigns made remarkable periods in the histories of both nations . To reduce the power ...
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... crown , Edward IV . made a show of carrying the war again into France ; but he soon returned home , and your lordship will not be at a loss to find much better reasons for his doing so , in the situation of his affairs and the ...
... crown , Edward IV . made a show of carrying the war again into France ; but he soon returned home , and your lordship will not be at a loss to find much better reasons for his doing so , in the situation of his affairs and the ...
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