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" But unless his Majesty hath the like power declared to raise a land army upon the same exigent of state, the Crown seems to me to stand but upon one leg at home, to be considerable but by halves to foreign princes abroad. "
A Constitutional History of the British Empire: From the Accession of ... - Page 300
by George Brodie - 1866
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A History of the British Empire: From the Accession of Charles I ..., Volume 3

George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 624 pages
...declared to raise a land army upon the * Sidney Papers, vol. ii. p. (523. t Clar. Papers, vol. ii. p. 84. same exigent of state," (a necessity of which the...Hutton, after that judge had voted in the minority in Hampden's case, he says that " the power of levies of forces by sea and land, is such a property of...
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A History of the British Empire: From the Accession of Charles I ..., Volume 2

George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 582 pages
...the like power declared to raise a land army upon the same exigent of state, the crown seems to me to stand but upon one leg at home, to be considerable but by halves to foreign princes abroad : yet sure this, methinks, convinces a power for the sovereign to raise payments for land forces, and...
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The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII to the ...

Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1827 - 648 pages
...the like power declared to raise a land army upon the same exigent of state, the crown seems to me to stand but upon one leg at home, to be considerable but by halves to foreign powers. Yet this sure methinks convinces a power for the sovereign to raise payments for land forces,...
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Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: John Pym; John Hampden. By John Forster

Statesmen - 1837 - 430 pages
...the like power declared to raise a land army upon the same exigent of state, the crown seems to me to stand but upon one leg at home, to be considerable but by halves to foreign princes abroad : yet sure this, methinks, convinces a power for the sovereign to raise payments for land forces, and...
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The Statesmen of the Commonwealth of England: With a Treatise on the Popular ...

John Forster - Great Britain - 1846 - 738 pages
...the like power declared to raise a lanu army upon the same exigent of state, the crown seems to me to stand but upon one leg at home, to be considerable but by halves to foreign princes abroad ; yet sure this, methinks, convinces * Stafford Papen, то!, i., p. 338. t Ibid., vol. i., p. 37Í....
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The Constitutional History of England: From the Accession of Henry VII. to ...

Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1850 - 750 pages
...the like power declared to raise a land army upon the same exigent of state, the crown seems to me to stand but upon one leg at home, to be considerable but by halves to foreign powers. Yet this sure methinks convinces a power for the sovereign to raise payments for land forces,...
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A constitutional history of the British empire, Volume 2

George Brodie - 1866 - 560 pages
...the like power declared to raise a land army upon the same exigent of state, the crown seems to me to stand but upon one leg at home, to be considerable but by halves to foreign princes abroad : yet sure this, methinks, convinces a power for the sovereign to raise payments for land forces, and...
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King and Commonwealth: A History of Charles I. and the Great Rebellion

Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - Great Britain - 1876 - 420 pages
...power declared to raise a land army upon the same exigent of State, the crown seems to me to stand upon one leg at home, to be considerable but by halves to foreign princes abroad. Yet sure this me« thinks convinces a power for the sovereign to raise payments for land forces, .......
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The Personal Government of Charles I.: A History of England from ..., Volume 2

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1877 - 442 pages
...the like power declared to raise a land army upon the same exigent of State, the Crown seems to me to stand but upon one leg at home, to be considerable but by halves to foreign Princes abroad. Yet. even this, methinks, convinces a power for the sovereign to raise payments for land forces, and...
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The History of the Struggle for Parliamentary Government in England, Volume 1

Andrew Bisset - Constitutional history - 1877 - 388 pages
...the like power declared to raise a land army upon the same exigent of state, the crown seems to me to stand but upon one leg at home, — to be considerable but by halves to foreign powers abroad ; yet since this, methinks, convinces a power for the sovereign to raise payments for...
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