Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... Catholic Emancipation , and quite approved of the old constitution of the House of Commons . The allegation is confuted by twenty volumes of parliamentary debates , nay , by innumerable passages in the very fragment which this writer ...
... Catholic Emancipation , and quite approved of the old constitution of the House of Commons . The allegation is confuted by twenty volumes of parliamentary debates , nay , by innumerable passages in the very fragment which this writer ...
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... because they did not suffer the debates of the House to be published . The authors of the Toleration Act are treated as bigots , because they did not go the whole length of Catholic emancipation . Just so we MACKINTOSH'S HISTORY . 35.
... because they did not suffer the debates of the House to be published . The authors of the Toleration Act are treated as bigots , because they did not go the whole length of Catholic emancipation . Just so we MACKINTOSH'S HISTORY . 35.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. the whole length of Catholic emancipation . Just so we have heard a baby , mounted on the shoulders of its father , cry out , " How much taller I am than papa ! " This gentleman can never want ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. the whole length of Catholic emancipation . Just so we have heard a baby , mounted on the shoulders of its father , cry out , " How much taller I am than papa ! " This gentleman can never want ...
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... Catholic empires . When some of those brave and honest , though misguided men , who had sate in judgment on their king , were dragged on hurdles to a death of prolonged tor ture , their last prayers were interrupted by the hisses and ...
... Catholic empires . When some of those brave and honest , though misguided men , who had sate in judgment on their king , were dragged on hurdles to a death of prolonged tor ture , their last prayers were interrupted by the hisses and ...
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... Catholics . He was not a tyrant from the ordinary motives . He valued power for its own sake little , and fame still less . He does not appear to have been vindictive , or to have found any pleasing excitement in cruelty . What he ...
... Catholics . He was not a tyrant from the ordinary motives . He valued power for its own sake little , and fame still less . He does not appear to have been vindictive , or to have found any pleasing excitement in cruelty . What he ...
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