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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. II (in Five Volumes)User Review - Zachary Moore - GoodreadsThe second volume of the work deals in great detail with the three year reign of James II and ends with his ouster at the hands of William and Mary. Much effort is spent to convince the reader of ... Read full review Review: The History Of England From The Accession Of James Ii: Volume 2User Review - GoodreadsI will probably never read this, except for reference purposes, because occasionally you want to know what they thought of William of Orange back when my copy was published in 1865. Related books
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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesancient Arminian arms army authority became began Bishop called Calvinists Cavaliers century Charles the Second chief Church Church of England civil clergy constitution Council court Cromwell crown despotism divine doctrine Duke of York ecclesiastical Elizabeth eminent enemy England English Europe Exclusion Bill favour force France French head Henry hereditary honour House of Commons House of Lords House of Stuart hundred Ireland King King's kingdom land less Lewis liberty London Long Parliament Lord ment military mind ministers monarchy nation never opposition Papists party passed peace persons Plantagenets political Popery prerogative Presbyterians prince Protestant province Puritans realm reform regarded reign religion Restoration Roman Catholic Rome Roundheads royal Royalists Saint scarcely Scotland seemed soldiers soon sovereign spirit Star Chamber suffered sword temper throne tion Tory trainbands troops tyranny victory violent Westminster Whigs whole zealous Popular passagesPage 1 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. Page 168 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Page 383 - One group debated whether Paradise Lost ought not to have been in rhyme. To another an envious poetaster demonstrated that Venice Preserved ought to have been hooted from the stage. Page 49 - ... barbarism, have been turned by skill and industry into gardens, and can boast of a long list of heroes and statesmen, philosophers and poets. Whoever, knowing what Italy and Scotland naturally are, and what, four hundred years ago, they actually were, shall now compare the country round Rome with the country round Edinburgh, will be able to form some judgment as to the tendency of Papal domination. Page 375 - The houses were not numbered. There would indeed have been little advantage in numbering them ; for of the coachmen, chairmen,^ porters, and errand boys of London, a very small proportion could read. It was necessary to use marks which the most ignorant could understand. The shops were therefore distinguished by painted or sculptured signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. The walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapel lay through an endless succession of Saracens... Page 393 - This mode of travelling, which by Englishmen of the present day would be regarded as insufferably slow, seemed to our ancestors wonderfully and indeed alarmingly rapid. In a work published a few months before the death of Charles the Second, the flying coaches are extolled as far superior to any similar vehicles ever known in the world. Page 50 - ... Protestant activity and enterprise. The French have doubtless shown an energy and an intelligence which, even when misdirected, have justly entitled them to be called a great people. But this apparent exception, when examined, will be found to confirm the rule ; for in no country that is called Roman Catholic has the Roman Catholic Church, during several generations, possessed so little authority as in France. Page 412 - Paris shone forth with a splendour which was set off' to full advantage by contrast. France, indeed, had at that time an empire over mankind, such as even the Roman Republic never attained. For, when Rome was politically dominant, she was in arts and letters the humble pupil of Greece. France had, over the surrounding countries, at once the ascendency which Rome had over Greece, and the ascendency which Greece had over Rome. Page 435 - It may here be noticed that the practice of setting children prematurely to work, a practice which the state, the legitimate protector of those who cannot protect themselves, has, in our time, wisely and humanely interdicted, prevailed in the -seventeenth century to an extent which, when compared with the extent of the manufacturing system, seems almost incredible. Page 160 - The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand men, accustomed to the profession of arms, were at once thrown on the world ; and experience seemed to warrant the belief that this change would produce much misery and crime — that the discharged veterans would be seen begging in every street, or would be driven by hunger to pillage. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarSmallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of DeathNicolau Barquet, Pere Domingo - 1997 - Annals of Internal Medicine The Origins of Central Banking: Solutions to the Free-Rider ProblemJ Lawrence Broz - 2003 - International Organization Narrative, Agency, and Mood: On the Social Construction of ...Jonathan Hearn - 2002 - Comparative Studies in Society and History The Origins of Prejudice: The Malintegration of Subei in Late ...Antonia Finnane - 1993 - Comparative Studies in Society and History Bibliographic information
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