A History of England in the Eighteenth CenturyD. Appleton, 1878 - History |
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... and Protestants 312 . Laws affecting domestic life Laws affecting religious worship Degree in which the code was enforced Its effects . 313 316 320 326 Condition of the Catholics in England And in Scotland Measures THE FIRST VOLUME . xiii.
... and Protestants 312 . Laws affecting domestic life Laws affecting religious worship Degree in which the code was enforced Its effects . 313 316 320 326 Condition of the Catholics in England And in Scotland Measures THE FIRST VOLUME . xiii.
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky. Condition of the Catholics in England And in Scotland Measures relating to Unitarians , Arians , and Sceptics Rapid growth of religious indifferentism in England PAGE 328 336 337 339 CHAPTER III . Monotony ...
William Edward Hartpole Lecky. Condition of the Catholics in England And in Scotland Measures relating to Unitarians , Arians , and Sceptics Rapid growth of religious indifferentism in England PAGE 328 336 337 339 CHAPTER III . Monotony ...
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... Scotland 512 515 Legislation about Public Order On gin - drinking . History of Drunkenness 516 Extreme danger of London streets . The Mohocks The inefficiency of the watchmen 522 523 Street robberies 524 Abolition of the privileges of ...
... Scotland 512 515 Legislation about Public Order On gin - drinking . History of Drunkenness 516 Extreme danger of London streets . The Mohocks The inefficiency of the watchmen 522 523 Street robberies 524 Abolition of the privileges of ...
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... Scotland , and the partial toleration of Dissenters in England , have all been justified by history as measures of real and unquestionable progress .. The English Revolution belongs to a class of successful measures of which there are ...
... Scotland , and the partial toleration of Dissenters in England , have all been justified by history as measures of real and unquestionable progress .. The English Revolution belongs to a class of successful measures of which there are ...
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... Scotland , the Par- tition Treaty , signed by William without consultation with any English minister except Somers , all added to the flame . The discontent was unreasonably , but not unnaturally , aggra- vated by a long series of bad ...
... Scotland , the Par- tition Treaty , signed by William without consultation with any English minister except Somers , all added to the flame . The discontent was unreasonably , but not unnaturally , aggra- vated by a long series of bad ...
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Page 442 - It is now too apparent, that this great, this powerful, this formidable kingdom, is considered only as a province to a despicable Electorate; and that, in consequence of a scheme formed long ago, and invariably pursued, these troops are hired only to drain this unhappy nation of its money.
Page 296 - This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful burning of this protestant city, begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the popish faction, in the beginning of September, in the year of our Lord 1666. In order to the carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the protestant religion and old English liberty, and introducing popery and slavery.
Page 327 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 141 - ... tis a soul like thine, a soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, above all pain, all passion and all pride, the rage of power, the blast of public breath, the lust of lucre and the dread of death.
Page 307 - In his own country the Catholic was only recognised by the law, ' for repression and punishment.' The Lord Chancellor Bowes and the Chief Justice Robinson both distinctly laid down from the bench ' that the law does not suppose any such person to exist as an Irish Roman...
Page 193 - All civic virtue, all the heroism and self-sacrifice of patriotism spring ultimately from the habit men acquire of regarding their nation as a great organic whole, identifying themselves with its fortunes in the past as in the present, and looking forward anxiously to its future destinies.
Page 308 - To-day, it is the colored race which is denied, by corporations and individuals wielding public authority, rights fundamental in their freedom and citizenship. At some future time, it may be that some other race will fall under the ban of race discrimination.
Page 482 - ... publisher of any printed newspaper of any denomination, to presume to insert in the said letters or papers, or to give therein any account of the debates or other proceedings of...
Page 302 - THE Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles...
Page 580 - But soon, ah soon, rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense : Strong in new arms, lo! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he conies, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums. Arrest him, empress; or you sleep no more — She heard, and drove him to the Hibernian shore.