This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... the franchises of the City of London were forfeited to the Crown, and the government proceeded to attack many other corporations which had returned Whig members to Parliament. 1. 30. Les conspirateurs. See the description in Macaulay's England, Chap. V. of the refugees in Holland, Lord Grey of Wark, Ferguson, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... the franchises of the City of London were forfeited to the Crown, and the government proceeded to attack many other corporations which had returned Whig members to Parliament. 1. 30. Les conspirateurs. See the description in Macaulay's England, Chap. V. of the refugees in Holland, Lord Grey of Wark, Ferguson, Rumhold, &c. Page 8O. 1.8. frappait d'anatheme, 'anathematized.' 1. 9. Forts de cet appui, 'relying on this support, ' 'on the strength of this support, ' i.e. the support of the church. The expression is common enough in poetry: "Et forte desormais de vos droits et des miens." Corneille. Rochester, Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester (d. 1711), second son of the Chancelier Clarendon. He was dismissed by James II. for refusing to turn Catholic (see p. 84, 1. 16). He was from time to fime in office during the succeeding reigns. 1.13. un tiers parti. The adjective tiers is limited to a fev phrases, le tiers etat, le tiers parti, ecrit a la tierce personne, fievre tierce, &c. autour d'Halifax. "Halifax in particular...had, from the very day on which the Tories had by his help gained the ascendant, begun to tur n Whig." Macaulay. 1. 15. si l'on ne rentrait, E.B. 296. 1. 21. tout ce qui...d'adresse, E.B. 129. 1. 23. vinssent lui imposer means substantially the same as imposassent, but avoids the unpleasant sound, E.B. 1793, and is a little more picturesque. 1. 25. les inquietudes du mourant; had ses inquietudes been used, we must have had de mourant, E.B. 20. l'emporterent, E.B. 77. 1. 26. se refusa a, p. 54,1. 31. instances, 'entreaties, ' p. 49,1. i r. 1. 30. il s'etait...defendu; se dejendre de is often used in the sense of 'to deny, ' 'to repudiate.' "Un homme...me demanda si je n'etais...
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