A history of mediæval and modern Europe for secondary schools (1920) (14762091254)

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Title: A history of mediæval and modern Europe for secondary schools

Year: 1920 (1920s)

Authors: Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930 McKendrick, Norman Shaw, 1876-

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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin company

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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374 HISTORY OF EUROPE dull men, highly dependent upon their ministers. The EngHshkings nevertheless kept an imposing position. They were stilltheoretically the final source of power in Church and State,and thanks to their great social influence they were still ableto play a part in politics in a land and age where court favorwas at a heavy premium. 214. The great parties and the great ministers. During thisage the control of the Government oscillated between the twogreat parties, the Whigs and the Tories. The Whigs had beenthe main victors by the Revolution of 1688, and the Georgesowed to them their crown. With the kings influence to sus-tain them, they held the ministries and monopolized publicoffice down to the death of George II. George III found theTories, with their loud professions of devotion to Church andThrone, more useful to his schemes for restoring the personalpower of the king.- The Tories came into power early in hisreign, and kept control wdth only slight intervals down

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