Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... prince , nor the stubbornness of the people ; but to a change in the balance of pro- perty , which , since Henry the Seventh's time , has been daily falling into the scale of the Com- mons , from that of the king and the Lords . " This ...
... prince , nor the stubbornness of the people ; but to a change in the balance of pro- perty , which , since Henry the Seventh's time , has been daily falling into the scale of the Com- mons , from that of the king and the Lords . " This ...
Page xii
... princes of Europe . An army was wanting to support their claims ; but , from the insular security of Britain , they had no plausible pretext for keeping on foot such a num ber of mercenaries ; and such claims served the more to ...
... princes of Europe . An army was wanting to support their claims ; but , from the insular security of Britain , they had no plausible pretext for keeping on foot such a num ber of mercenaries ; and such claims served the more to ...
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... princes and cities trooping apace to the new - erected banner of salvation ; the martyrs , with the unresistible might of weakness , shaking the powers of darkness , and scorning the fiery rage of the old red dragon . The pleasing ...
... princes and cities trooping apace to the new - erected banner of salvation ; the martyrs , with the unresistible might of weakness , shaking the powers of darkness , and scorning the fiery rage of the old red dragon . The pleasing ...
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... princess Mary the papist , but of Elizabeth the protestant , and ( by the bishops judgment ) the lawful issue of king Henry . Who then can think ( though these prelates had sought a further reformation ) that the least wry face of a ...
... princess Mary the papist , but of Elizabeth the protestant , and ( by the bishops judgment ) the lawful issue of king Henry . Who then can think ( though these prelates had sought a further reformation ) that the least wry face of a ...
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... prince , in whose days why religion attained not a perfect reducement in the beginning of her reign , I suppose the hindering causes will be found to be com- mon with some formerly alleged for King Edward VI ; the greenness of the times ...
... prince , in whose days why religion attained not a perfect reducement in the beginning of her reign , I suppose the hindering causes will be found to be com- mon with some formerly alleged for King Edward VI ; the greenness of the times ...
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