English Revolution
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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 Henry Noel Brailsford
The English Revolution had weakened permanently the control of the British government over the colony, and consequently the power of the Governor.
From Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
On the outbreak of the English Revolution, occasioned by the despotism of the first two Stuarts, crowds of Puritan exiles returned from Holland and North America to their old home.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
These same principles also became the rallying shout of the English Revolution of 1688.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
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 Isaac Disraeli
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