Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... considered merely as exhibitions of mental power . We at once recognise that consummate master of the whole art of intellectual gladiatorship , whose speeches , imperfectly as they have been transmitted to us , should be studied day and ...
... considered merely as exhibitions of mental power . We at once recognise that consummate master of the whole art of intellectual gladiatorship , whose speeches , imperfectly as they have been transmitted to us , should be studied day and ...
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... considered as an insignificant man ? to an insignificant man that Parliament voted thanks for services rendered to the Protestant religion ? Was it against an insignificant man that Dryden put forth all his powers of invective in the ...
... considered as an insignificant man ? to an insignificant man that Parliament voted thanks for services rendered to the Protestant religion ? Was it against an insignificant man that Dryden put forth all his powers of invective in the ...
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... considered as startling paradoxes or damnable heresies . The writer is just the man who , if he had lived in the seventeenth century , would have devoutly believed that the Papists burned London , -who would have swallowed the whole of ...
... considered as startling paradoxes or damnable heresies . The writer is just the man who , if he had lived in the seventeenth century , would have devoutly believed that the Papists burned London , -who would have swallowed the whole of ...
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... considered as desirable , and which they speedily pro- ceeded to make . The Declaration was merely a recital of certain old and wholesome laws which had been violated by the Stuarts ; and a solemn protest against the validity of any ...
... considered as desirable , and which they speedily pro- ceeded to make . The Declaration was merely a recital of certain old and wholesome laws which had been violated by the Stuarts ; and a solemn protest against the validity of any ...
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... considered as liberal ; but they were not dreaming pedants . They were statesmen accustomed to the management of great affairs . Their plans of reform were not so extensive as those of the lawgivers of Cadiz ; but what they planned ...
... considered as liberal ; but they were not dreaming pedants . They were statesmen accustomed to the management of great affairs . Their plans of reform were not so extensive as those of the lawgivers of Cadiz ; but what they planned ...
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