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Long Parliament

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  • This "Long Parliament," as it was to be called, repudiated the king's policies and obliged him to surrender many of his prerogative powers.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Darkmind1970 2010

  • So please, no lectures from the right about the guild merely protecting its own; these forms of social solidarity or political hypocrisy are a lot better than the moral purity of the Long Parliament and the New Model Army.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » No Righteous Gentile Awards, Please 2010

  • And in the late 1660s he wrote a history of the civil wars, Behemoth; or, The Long Parliament, which was published posthumously (Hobbes 1668a).

    Thomas Hobbes Duncan, Stewart 2009

  • In history, he translated Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War into English, and later wrote his own history of the Long Parliament.

    Thomas Hobbes Duncan, Stewart 2009

  • But, really—I could once again quote Oliver Cromwell in dismissing the Long Parliament, You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately…Depart, I say; & let us have done with you.

    Archive 2009-03-29 Bas Bleu 2009

  • I SHALL not try to relate the particulars of the great civil war between King Charles the First and the Long Parliament, which lasted nearly four years, and a full account of which would fill many large books.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • His senior commanders wereready “to march upon the capital and disperse Congress as Cromwell did the Long Parliament.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • His senior commanders wereready “to march upon the capital and disperse Congress as Cromwell did the Long Parliament.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • His account was an instant bestseller and provided much of the impetus for the abolition of the Star Chamber by the Long Parliament in 1641.

    Remarks On Torture And Secrecy By The Redoubtable Scott Horton. 2007

  • Long Parliament, and an end of the Long Parliament, and risings of the

    A Child's History of England 2007

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