History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth, Parts 2-3; Part 8William Cobbett, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... commons , or people , of England found in the Catholic church , which not only had an interest always opposed to the encroachments of the aristocracy , but which was , from the very nature of its institutions , the cause of a ...
... commons , or people , of England found in the Catholic church , which not only had an interest always opposed to the encroachments of the aristocracy , but which was , from the very nature of its institutions , the cause of a ...
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... commons were the joint - proprietors , in fact , of the whole country ; they acknowledged the owner as lord of the soil ; but they held the estates for lives ; they had rents or fines to pay , at stated times , but with this reservation ...
... commons were the joint - proprietors , in fact , of the whole country ; they acknowledged the owner as lord of the soil ; but they held the estates for lives ; they had rents or fines to pay , at stated times , but with this reservation ...
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... commons ; but this is what the makers of the Reformation did not do ; they did precisely the contrary ; and this too from a very obvious cause . The French Revolution was made by the people ; the English Reformation was made by the ...
... commons ; but this is what the makers of the Reformation did not do ; they did precisely the contrary ; and this too from a very obvious cause . The French Revolution was made by the people ; the English Reformation was made by the ...
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... commons had lost ; but instead of this a law was made to tax all the people for the relief of the poor and for the repairing of the churches ; and this tax , for England alone , now amounts to the enormous sum of seven millions and a ...
... commons had lost ; but instead of this a law was made to tax all the people for the relief of the poor and for the repairing of the churches ; and this tax , for England alone , now amounts to the enormous sum of seven millions and a ...
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... subject , he did say , in the House of Commons , in 1822 , that , if the people of Eng- land could have had their will , the House of Brunswick would never have worn the Crown of this kingdom . The dislike of the people was not ...
... subject , he did say , in the House of Commons , in 1822 , that , if the people of Eng- land could have had their will , the House of Brunswick would never have worn the Crown of this kingdom . The dislike of the people was not ...
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