Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 19
... favour of the transgressor , he never disputed the authority of the law , or showed his ingenuity by refining away its enactments . On every occasion he showed himself firm where principles were in question , but full of charity towards ...
... favour of the transgressor , he never disputed the authority of the law , or showed his ingenuity by refining away its enactments . On every occasion he showed himself firm where principles were in question , but full of charity towards ...
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... favours us with his opinions about Lord Bacon , and about the French literature of the age of Louis XIV .; and with opinions , more absurd still , about the poet- ry of Homer , whom it is evident , from his criticisms , that he cannot ...
... favours us with his opinions about Lord Bacon , and about the French literature of the age of Louis XIV .; and with opinions , more absurd still , about the poet- ry of Homer , whom it is evident , from his criticisms , that he cannot ...
Page 31
... favour of a man of no weight - of a man so unimportant that no person of rank would talk with him about momentous affairs ? And , even granting that Burnet was a very " inferior personage , " did Halifax think him so ? Everybody knows ...
... favour of a man of no weight - of a man so unimportant that no person of rank would talk with him about momentous affairs ? And , even granting that Burnet was a very " inferior personage , " did Halifax think him so ? Everybody knows ...
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... favour of his person and of his office . From the day when the axe fell on his neck before the windows of his palace , that reaction became rapid and violent . At the Restoration it had attained such a point that it could go no further ...
... favour of his person and of his office . From the day when the axe fell on his neck before the windows of his palace , that reaction became rapid and violent . At the Restoration it had attained such a point that it could go no further ...
Page 51
... favour to that church than to the Presbyterians . He was the in- timate ally , or rather the hired servant , of a powerful king , who had already given proofs of his determination to tole- rate within his dominions no other religion ...
... favour to that church than to the Presbyterians . He was the in- timate ally , or rather the hired servant , of a powerful king , who had already given proofs of his determination to tole- rate within his dominions no other religion ...
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