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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F.

CHAPTER LXVIII
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Let us beware of that factious violence, which leads to demand more than will be granted; lest we lose the advantage of those beneficial concessions, and leave the nation, on the king's demise, at the mercy of a zealous prince, irritated with the ill usage which, he imagines, he has already met with.
In the house of commons, the reasoning of the exclusionists appeared the more convincing; and the bill passed by a great majority.

It was in the house of peers that the king expected to oppose it with success.

The court party was there so prevalent, that it was carried only by a majority of two to pay so much regard to the bill as even to commit it.

When it came to be debated, the contest was violent.

Shaftesbury, Sunderland, and Essex argued for it; Halifax chiefly conducted the debate against it, and displayed an extent of capacity and a force of eloquence which had never been surpassed in that assembly.


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