Three English Statesmen: A Course of Lectures on the Political History of EnglandMacmillan, 1867 - 328 sider |
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Side 13
... soldiers refused to con- quer for Laud . Strafford's Irish army was not ready . Government by prerogative fell , and Charles called a parliament . After eleven years without parliaments , most of the members PYM . 13.
... soldiers refused to con- quer for Laud . Strafford's Irish army was not ready . Government by prerogative fell , and Charles called a parliament . After eleven years without parliaments , most of the members PYM . 13.
Side 26
... Irish were a conquered nation . " They were a conquered nation , " cries Pym . " There cannot be a word more pregnant or fruitful in treason than that word is . There are few nations in the world that have not been conquered , and no ...
... Irish were a conquered nation . " They were a conquered nation , " cries Pym . " There cannot be a word more pregnant or fruitful in treason than that word is . There are few nations in the world that have not been conquered , and no ...
Side 38
... Irish rebellion ; it was simply a natural episode in the Irish land ques- tion . But he wrote to Secretary Nicholas , " I hope this ill news of Ireland will hinder some of those follies in England . " It did not hinder the preparation ...
... Irish rebellion ; it was simply a natural episode in the Irish land ques- tion . But he wrote to Secretary Nicholas , " I hope this ill news of Ireland will hinder some of those follies in England . " It did not hinder the preparation ...
Side 115
... Irish or Jamaica court - martial . It consisted of a large number of judges , including the highest func- tionaries of the law , it sat publicly , proceeded deliberately , and observed the legal rules of evidence nor , unless to murder ...
... Irish or Jamaica court - martial . It consisted of a large number of judges , including the highest func- tionaries of the law , it sat publicly , proceeded deliberately , and observed the legal rules of evidence nor , unless to murder ...
Side 127
... Irish land- owners implicated in the rebellion . That Crom- well intended to exterminate the Irish is an exploded fable : from the moment when the rebellion was suppressed , he bade the mass of the Irish people dwell in security and ...
... Irish land- owners implicated in the rebellion . That Crom- well intended to exterminate the Irish is an exploded fable : from the moment when the rebellion was suppressed , he bade the mass of the Irish people dwell in security and ...
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Side 245 - the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
Side 238 - We must not count with certainty on a continuance of our present prosperity during such an interval ; but unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country, when, from the situation of Europe, we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace, than we may at the present moment.
Side 70 - Cant, Cloth-worship, or whatever ugly name it have, has gone about incurably sick ever since ; and is now at length, in these generations, very rapidly dying.
Side 71 - That it was our duty, if ever the Lord brought us back again in peace, to call Charles Stuart, that man of blood, to an account for that blood he had shed, and mischief he had done to his utmost, against the Lord's Cause and People in these poor Nations.
Side 281 - The conversation of the principal persons of the country all tends to encourage this system of blood ; and the conversation even at my table, where you will suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, &C., and if a priest has been put to death, the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company.
Side 28 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government against law...
Side 271 - If punishment adequate to the crime of sedition were to be sought for, it could not be found in our law, now that torture is happily abolished.
Side 319 - He had a brave regiment of his countrymen, most of them freeholders and freeholders' sons, and who upon matter of conscience engaged in this quarrel ; and thus being well armed within by the satisfaction of their own consciences, and without by good iron arms, they would, as one man, stand firmly and charge desperately.
Side 8 - Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died.
Side 111 - I am confident that it came so into your hands ; and was not judged by you to be from counterfeited or feigned Necessity, but by Divine Providence and Dispensation. And this I speak with more earnestness, because I speak for God and not for men.