The levy of ship money and customs by Charles sinks into insignificance beside Cromwell's wholesale taxation by ordinances; the inquisitional methods of the major-generals and the unjust and exceptional taxation of royalists outdid the scandals of the extra-legal courts of the Stuarts; the shipment of British subjects by Cromwell as slaves to Barbados has no parallel in the Stuart administration; while the prying into morals, the encouragement of informers, the attempt to make the people religious by force, were the counterpart of the Laudian system, and Cromwell's drastic treatment of the Irish exceeded anything dreamed of by Strafford. [Please select]
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Blucher outdid Roguet. [Please select]
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Cosette outdid him. [Please select]
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“And the major outdid himself, that day, in nursing them,” interrupted Sanford. [Please select]
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Gladstone outdid himself, but perhaps was a little too profuse with his Latin quotations. [Please select]
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The Williams's shop outdid itself and more splendid instruments never went forth from its doors. [Please select]
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Prone to fancy all men's hands against him, he doubled the shame and outdid the most scandalous. [Please select]
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