| Denzil Holles Baron Holles - 1699 - 256 páginas
...and felt in our unhappy Kingdom. The meaneft of Men, the bafeft and vileft of the Nation, the. loweft of the People have got the Power into their Hands ; trampled upon the Crown ; baffled and mifufed the Parliament ; violated the Laws ; deftroyed or fuppreft the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom;... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 páginas
...not have been so obviously foreseen and surely, predicted :-r ' The meanest of men,' says Holies, ' the basest and vilest .of the nation, the lowest of...the laws ; destroyed or suppressed the nobility and, .genfry «f the kingdom ; oppressed the liberties of the people in general j broke Jn sunder all bands... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 páginas
...not have been so obviously foreseen and surely predicted : — ' The meanest of men,' says Holies, ' the basest and vilest of the nation, the lowest of the people, have got the power into their handstrampled upon the crown ; baffled and misused the parliament ; violated the laws ; destroyed or... | |
| Eliot Warburton - 1849 - 580 páginas
...former associates, when they became possessed exclusively of the power from which he was exiled : " The wisest of men saw it to be a great evil, ' that servants...meanest of men, the basest and vilest of the nation, have got the power into their hands ; trampled upon the Crown ; baffled and misused the Parliament... | |
| Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 588 páginas
...former associates, when they became possessed exclusively of the power from which he was exiled : " The wisest of men saw it to be a great evil, ' that servants...meanest of men, the basest and vilest of the nation, have got the power into their hands ; trampled upon the Crown ; baffled and misused the Parliament... | |
| Eliot Warburton - 1849 - 562 páginas
...both seen and felt in this unhappy kingdom. The meanest of men, the basest and vilest of the nation, have got the power into their hands ; trampled upon the Crown ; baffled and misused the Parliament [ie Holles's part of it] ; violated the laws ; destroyed or suppressed the nobility and gentry of the... | |
| Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 544 páginas
...Lord Holies: The Triumph of the Independents, 1642-1649 (From Memoirs of Denizil, Lord Holies). "The wisest of men saw it to be a great evil, that Servants...baffled and misused the Parliament ; violated the Laws ; . . . cast off all fear of God and Man ; and now lord it over the persons and estates of all sorts... | |
| Christopher Hill - 1982 - 308 páginas
...1530-1840, p. 97 11. Whinney and Millar, English Art, 1625-1714, pp. 188, 253-5. 11: Conclusion, 1640-60 The meanest of men, the basest and vilest of the nation,...suppressed the nobility and gentry of the kingdom. Denzil, Lord Holies, Memoirs (1649, published 1699) When the people contended for their liberty, they... | |
| Anthony Fletcher, John Stevenson - 1987 - 268 páginas
...so much to heart nicely summarises a vital aspect of the gentry's perception of social order: 'The wisest of men saw it to be a great evil that servants should ride on horses.' It was only a short step to the further assumption that these same men should enjoy domination over... | |
| Michael S. Kimmel - 1988 - 286 páginas
...himself, the Presbyterian Parliamentarian D, Holies wrote in 1649 1cited in Hill and Dell, 1949: 369): The wisest of men saw it to be a great evil that servants should ride on horses and princes walk as servants on the earth: an evil not both seen and felt in our unhappy kingdom, The... | |
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