English Revolution
Americannoun
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While Burke was belabouring Dr. Price, he whittled away the whole theoretic significance of the English Revolution of 1688, but he remained its partisan.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel
The opprobrious and ludicrous nickname of “the Rump,” stigmatised a faction which played the same part in the English Revolution as the “Montagne” of the Jacobins did in the French.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
The opposition of Amsterdam to an English Revolution of 1688. expedition, in the absence of danger from the side of France, was overcome.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
Rosseau, Voltaire, and Diderot ushered in the French Revolution; in similar fashion the English Revolution is heralded by William Morris and Francis Adams.”—F.
From Songs of the Army of the Night by Adams, Francis William Lauderdale
The truth is that the English Revolution was at first a popular movement, having a clear majority of the property, intelligence and numbers of the people on its side.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
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