Outlines of English History

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G. I. Jones, 1880 - 180 ページ
 

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129 ページ - what you have done this morning at the House, and in some hours all England will hear it. But you mistake, sir, if you think the Parliament dissolved. No power on earth can dissolve the Parliament but itself, be sure of that ! " CHAPTER XII THE PROTECTORATE.
90 ページ - Luther, which had procured for him from the pope the title of " defender of the faith." He also angrily complains " of their presumption in wanting to mend his laws, as if, after being their king eight-and-twenty years, he did not know how to govern the realm. He rejected all their petitions, but offered to pardon them for appearing in arms against him, if they would give up their ringleaders...
93 ページ - ... carried to the fire in a chair. She was burned with three others, a gentleman, a clergyman, and a tailor; and so the world went on. Either the King became afraid of the power of the Duke of Norfolk, and his son the Earl of Surrey, or they gave him some offence, but he resolved to pull them down, to follow all the rest who were gone.
147 ページ - ... became so pronounced as to render possible a coalition between the long-standing enemies Charles James Fox and Lord North. Thereafter a decided reaction set in, and party distinctions reappeared. REIGN OF GEORGE III In 1760, George II died and was succeeded by his grandson. George III was a marked improvement on his two immediate predecessors, though he was certainly devoid of the higher gifts of statesmanship. His private life was exemplary, and if, like his granddaughter, Queen Victoria, he...
156 ページ - June 26, 1830, and was succeeded by his brother, the duke of Clarence, as William IV.
88 ページ - One of his first acts on coming to the Throne was to strike his name from the roll of Privy Councillors.
127 ページ - When his name was called, a woman's voice — it was his wife's — called out, ' He is not here and never will be ; you do wrong to name him.
45 ページ - ... it in vain; but may use it as the minister of God for the terror and punishment of evildoers, and for the protection and encouragement of those that do well, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then...
131 ページ - Charles was forced to own it must have been his own fault that he had not come back before, since every man he met received him with a hearty welcome.
52 ページ - States should be deprived of life, liberty or property in the said territory except by the judgment of his peers and the law of the land...

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