Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... cause de la plupart des maux , a été constamment d'éloigner le plus grand de tous , le bouleversement de l'autorité , les révolu- tions de propriété et de pouvoir . " To so conservative a frame of mind had the excesses of the French ...
... cause de la plupart des maux , a été constamment d'éloigner le plus grand de tous , le bouleversement de l'autorité , les révolu- tions de propriété et de pouvoir . " To so conservative a frame of mind had the excesses of the French ...
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... cause of liberty , and of toleration . In that great convulsion which overset almost every other understanding , he was indeed so much shaken that he leaned sometimes in one direction and sometimes in the other ; but he never lost his ...
... cause of liberty , and of toleration . In that great convulsion which overset almost every other understanding , he was indeed so much shaken that he leaned sometimes in one direction and sometimes in the other ; but he never lost his ...
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... cause of quarrel . Even in the next age , Congreve makes a lying sharper , in one of his plays , talk seriously of fighting for his religion . " What is meant by " even in the next age ? " Congreve's first work , the novel of " Cleophil ...
... cause of quarrel . Even in the next age , Congreve makes a lying sharper , in one of his plays , talk seriously of fighting for his religion . " What is meant by " even in the next age ? " Congreve's first work , the novel of " Cleophil ...
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... causes and to the consequences of that great event . race , - is so . We said that the history of England is the history of progress , and when we take a comprehensive view of it , it But when examined in small separate portions , it ...
... causes and to the consequences of that great event . race , - is so . We said that the history of England is the history of progress , and when we take a comprehensive view of it , it But when examined in small separate portions , it ...
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... 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 came face to face with the soldiers of Preston and Dunbar , -with ...
... 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 came face to face with the soldiers of Preston and Dunbar , -with ...
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