 | Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pages
...dissolving the abbeys, brought, with the declining state of the nobility, so vast a prey to the industry of the people, that the balance of the commonwealth was too apparently in the popular party to be unseen by the wise council of Queen Parthenia, who, converting her reign through the perpetual love... | |
 | Arthur Henry Johnson - 1909 - 196 pages
...dissolving of the abbeys brought with the declining state of the nobility so vast a prey to the industry of the people that the balance of the commonwealth was too apparently in the popular party to be unseen by the wise council of Queen Parthenia. 3 It should also be remembered that the right to leave... | |
 | Arthur Henry Johnson - 1909 - 208 pages
...dissolving of the abbeys brought with the declining state of the nobility so vast a prey to the industry of the people that the balance of the commonwealth was too apparently in the popular party to be unseen by the wise council of Queen Parthenia.3 It should also be remembered that the right to leave... | |
 | James Harrington - 1924 - 412 pages
...declining estate of the Nobility so vast a prey unto the Industry of the people, that the Ballance of the Common-wealth was too apparently in the Popular party, to be unseen by the wise Councel of Queen Parthenia, who converting he? reign through the perpetuall Love-tricks... | |
 | Lawrence Manley - 1995 - 638 pages
..." These changes brought with the declining estate of the nobility so vast a prey unto the industry of the people, that the balance of the commonwealth was too apparently in the popular party to be unseen by the wise council of Parthenia [ie, Elizabeth I] who, converting her reign through the perpetual... | |
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Coraunus, the successor of that king, dissolving the abbeys, brought, with the declining state of the nobility, so vast a prey to the industry of the people, that the balance of the commonwealth was too apparently in the popular party to be unseen by... 