Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 19
... importance , and that , we 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 ...
... importance , and that , we 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 ...
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... important matters . This writer evidently wishes to impress his readers with a belief that Sir James Mackintosh , from interested motives , aban- doned the doctrines of the " Vindicia Gallica . " Had his statements appeared in their ...
... important matters . This writer evidently wishes to impress his readers with a belief that Sir James Mackintosh , from interested motives , aban- doned the doctrines of the " Vindicia Gallica . " Had his statements appeared in their ...
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... importance , and as an episode in his history . " And this is the man who has been chosen to complete a work which Sir James Mackintosh left unfinished ! Every lin of the passage proves the writer to be ignorant of the most notorious ...
... importance , and as an episode in his history . " And this is the man who has been chosen to complete a work which Sir James Mackintosh left unfinished ! Every lin of the passage proves the writer to be ignorant of the most notorious ...
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... important inventions in political science . Yet not so : -for men who are able to make discoveries are generally disposed to make allowances . Men who are eagerly pressing forward in pursuit of truth are grateful to every one who has ...
... important inventions in political science . Yet not so : -for men who are able to make discoveries are generally disposed to make allowances . Men who are eagerly pressing forward in pursuit of truth are grateful to every one who has ...
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... importance to this circumstance . It was well known also that the most distinguished Catholic casuists had writ- ten largely in defence of regicide , of mental reservation , and of equivocation . It was not quite impossible , that men ...
... importance to this circumstance . It was well known also that the most distinguished Catholic casuists had writ- ten largely in defence of regicide , of mental reservation , and of equivocation . It was not quite impossible , that men ...
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