Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... ENGLAND , IN 1688 18 Edinburgh Review . SIR JOHN MALCOLM'S LIFE OF LORD CLIVE 81 Edinburgh Review . LIFE AND WRITINGS OF SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE 159 Edinburgh Review . CHURCH AND STATE 214 Edinburgh Review . RANKE'S HISTORY OF THE POPES 303 ...
... ENGLAND , IN 1688 18 Edinburgh Review . SIR JOHN MALCOLM'S LIFE OF LORD CLIVE 81 Edinburgh Review . LIFE AND WRITINGS OF SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE 159 Edinburgh Review . CHURCH AND STATE 214 Edinburgh Review . RANKE'S HISTORY OF THE POPES 303 ...
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... England , in 1688. Comprising a view of the Reign of James the Second , from his Accession , to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange , by the late Right Honourable Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH ; and completed to the Settlement of the Crown ...
... England , in 1688. Comprising a view of the Reign of James the Second , from his Accession , to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange , by the late Right Honourable Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH ; and completed to the Settlement of the Crown ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. England , reason penetrated , and if we may venture on the expression , made red - hot by passion . But this is not the kind of excellence proper to history ; and it is hardly too much to say ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. England , reason penetrated , and if we may venture on the expression , made red - hot by passion . But this is not the kind of excellence proper to history ; and it is hardly too much to say ...
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... England a hundred and fifty years ago . We expected to find , and we have found , many reflections breathing the spirit of a calm and benignant philosophy . But we did not , we own , expect to find that Sir James could tell a story as ...
... England a hundred and fifty years ago . We expected to find , and we have found , many reflections breathing the spirit of a calm and benignant philosophy . But we did not , we own , expect to find that Sir James could tell a story as ...
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... assistance of any book of reference to detect . The author has not the smallest notion of the state of England in 1688 ; of the feelings and opi nions of the people ; of the relative position of MACKINTOSH'S HISTORY . 29.
... assistance of any book of reference to detect . The author has not the smallest notion of the state of England in 1688 ; of the feelings and opi nions of the people ; of the relative position of MACKINTOSH'S HISTORY . 29.
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