Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... Body was driven from its hall at the point of the bayonet ? We do not speak of enthusiastic and light - minded people - of wits like Sheridan , or poets like Alfieri , but of the most virtuous and intelli- gent practical statesmen , and ...
... Body was driven from its hall at the point of the bayonet ? We do not speak of enthusiastic and light - minded people - of wits like Sheridan , or poets like Alfieri , but of the most virtuous and intelli- gent practical statesmen , and ...
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... body of the population in a state of per- sonal slavery . We see the most debasing and cruel super- stition exercising boundless dominion over the most elevated and benevolent minds . We see the multitude sunk in brutal ignorance , and ...
... body of the population in a state of per- sonal slavery . We see the most debasing and cruel super- stition exercising boundless dominion over the most elevated and benevolent minds . We see the multitude sunk in brutal ignorance , and ...
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... bodies , have speculated with exquisite subtlety on the operations of the human mind , — have been the acknowledged leaders of the human race in the career of political improvement . The history of Eng- land is the history of this great ...
... bodies , have speculated with exquisite subtlety on the operations of the human mind , — have been the acknowledged leaders of the human race in the career of political improvement . The history of Eng- land is the history of this great ...
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... body of proprietors held the soil by a new tenure . The most ancient local distinctions had been effaced . The most familar names had become obso- lete . There was no longer a Normandy , or a Burgundy , a Brittany , or a Guienne . The ...
... body of proprietors held the soil by a new tenure . The most ancient local distinctions had been effaced . The most familar names had become obso- lete . There was no longer a Normandy , or a Burgundy , a Brittany , or a Guienne . The ...
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... body . It was regularly recruited from among the most distinguished of the country gentlemen , the lawyers , and the clergy . The most powerful nobles of the century which pre- ceded the civil war , the Duke of Somerset , the Duke of ...
... body . It was regularly recruited from among the most distinguished of the country gentlemen , the lawyers , and the clergy . The most powerful nobles of the century which pre- ceded the civil war , the Duke of Somerset , the Duke of ...
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