 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 páginas
...not long nourish, when the stock, upon which they grew, was dead) : But as to true and real power, I should remain but the outside, but the picture, but the sign, of a King.' The oratorical claims of the Restoration cycle were amply sustained by Shaftesbury and Halifax, who... | |
 | David Hume - 1882 - 594 páginas
...not long flourish when the stock upon which they grew was dead ;) but as to true and real power, I should remain but the outside, but the picture, but the sign of a king." t War on any terms was esteemed, by the king and all his counsellors, preferable to so ignominious... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth - 1900 - 590 páginas
...before us, and please ourselves with the sight of a crown and sceptre, but as to true and rea? 'power we should remain but the outside, but the picture, but the sign of a king." On the other side, their demand, as it presented itself to the minds of the Parliamentarians, was rather... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 1904 - 208 páginas
...us, and please ourselves with the sight of a crown and sceptre ; but as to true and real power, we should remain but the outside, but the picture, but the sign of a king." must be turned out of the House of Lords and placed under very strong restrictions. But, just as hardly... | |
 | Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) - 1905 - 400 páginas
...not long flourish, when the stock upon which they grew was dead); but as to true and real power, I should remain but the outside, but the picture, but the sign of a king." This was plain commonsense, and the allusions to crown and sceptre approximated to Napoleon's own sarcastic... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1910 - 296 páginas
...not long flourish when the stock upon which they grew was dead) ; but as to true and real power, I should remain but the outside, but the picture, but the sign of a king. His towns," he added, " were taken from him, his ships, his army, his money; and nothing," he observed,... | |
 | J. R. Tanner - 1928 - 334 páginas
...us, and please ourself with the sight of a crown and sceptre,. . .but as to true and real power, we should remain but the outside, but the picture, but the sign of a King".1 On the other hand, Parliament in thus attacking monarchy believed that it did so in its own... | |
 | John William Allen - 1644 - 700 páginas
...and please ourselves with the sight of a crown and sceptre . . . but as to true and real power, we should remain but the outside, but the picture, but the sign of a King.' II the proposed arrangements worked as intended and there were no reaction, so it would have been.... | |
 | Charel Bastiaan Krol - 1994 - 284 páginas
...us, and please ourself with the sight of a Crown and Sceptre ... but as to true and real power, we should remain but the out-side. but the picture, but the sign of a King." Karel l kon niet gedogen dat het Parliament zijn ministers apart nam. Buckingham, liet hij in 1626... | |
 | David L. Smith - 2002 - 396 páginas
...predecessors had wielded 'of appointing persons in these places': such a concession would leave Charles 'but the out-side, but the picture, but the sign of a King'. Charles wished to 'retain [his] power ... of discoursing with whom' he pleased and 'of what' he pleased.... | |
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... even these twigs would not long flourish, when the stock upon which they grew was dead) : but as to true and real power, I should remain but the outside, but the picture, but the sign of a king. 
