| Sir James Mackintosh - 1830 - 414 páginas
...boroughs. He thus unknowingly determined that England was to be a free country ; and he was the blind instrument of disclosing to the world that great institution...grasped by the iron gripe of a despotic conqueror. The origin of so happy an innovation is one of the most interesting objects of enquiry which occurs... | |
| 1831 - 472 páginas
...great institution of representation which was to introduce into popular governments a regularity und order far more perfect than had heretofore been purchased...grasped by the iron gripe of a despotic conqueror. The origin of во happy an innovation is one of the most interesting objects of inquiry which occurs... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 484 páginas
...boroughs. He thus unknowingly determined that England was to be a free country ; and he was the blind instrument of disclosing to the world that great institution...grasped by the iron gripe of a despotic conqueror. The origin of so happy an innovation is one of the most interesting objects of inquiry which occurs... | |
| 1845 - 1024 páginas
...was to introduce into popular governments a regularity and order far more perfect than had hitherto been purchased by submission to absolute power, and...grasped by the iron gripe of a despotic conqueror. The origin of so happy an innovation is one of the most interesting objects of inquiry which occurs... | |
| John Mathew Gutch - 1847 - 458 páginas
...sworn — the instrument which, for half a century, had been the sacred watchword of English liberty.* forth liberty from confinement in single cities, to...grasped by the iron gripe of a despotic conqueror." — Mackintosh's " History of England," vol. ip 238. * There can be no apology necessary for the insertion... | |
| John Mathew Gutch - 1850 - 454 páginas
...sworn — the instrument which, for half a century, had been the sacred watchword of English liberty.* forth liberty from confinement in single cities, to...grasped by the iron gripe of a despotic conqueror." — Mackintosh's " History of England," vol. ip 238. * There can be no apology necessary for the insertion... | |
| Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1885 - 812 páginas
...forth liberty from confinement in single cities to a fitness for being spread over territories, whu h experience does not forbid us to hope may be as vast as have ever been grasped by the iron band of a despotic conqueror." Success is seldom accompanied by moderation, especially in times when... | |
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