Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 19
... believe , is to be laid to the charge of the editor , who has far more serious blunders to answer for . The pen- sion of 60,000 livres , which Lord Sunderland received from France , is said to have been equivalent to 25007. sterling ...
... believe , is to be laid to the charge of the editor , who has far more serious blunders to answer for . The pen- sion of 60,000 livres , which Lord Sunderland received from France , is said to have been equivalent to 25007. sterling ...
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... believe that we are wiser than our ancestors . We believe , also , that our posterity will be wiser than we . It would be gross in- justice in our grandchildren to talk of us with contempt , merely because they may have surpassed us ...
... believe that we are wiser than our ancestors . We believe , also , that our posterity will be wiser than we . It would be gross in- justice in our grandchildren to talk of us with contempt , merely because they may have surpassed us ...
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... believe that this apathy was of the greatest service to the royal cause . If a French or Spanish army had invaded England , and if that army had been cut to pieces , as we have no doubt it would have been , on the first day on which it ...
... believe that this apathy was of the greatest service to the royal cause . If a French or Spanish army had invaded England , and if that army had been cut to pieces , as we have no doubt it would have been , on the first day on which it ...
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... believe that he was privy to anything which deserved the name of conspiracy . And it is quite certain , that if there be any small portion of truth in his evidence , that portion is so deeply buried in falsehood , that no human skill ...
... believe that he was privy to anything which deserved the name of conspiracy . And it is quite certain , that if there be any small portion of truth in his evidence , that portion is so deeply buried in falsehood , that no human skill ...
Page 54
... believe you , my lord . " The extreme folly of the Opposition in setting up the feeble and pusil- lanimous Monmouth as a claimant of the throne did them great harm . The story about the box and the marriage- contract was an absurd ...
... believe you , my lord . " The extreme folly of the Opposition in setting up the feeble and pusil- lanimous Monmouth as a claimant of the throne did them great harm . The story about the box and the marriage- contract was an absurd ...
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