Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... took place after 1688. When Sunderland was in power , the livre was worth about eighteen pence , and his pension consequently amounted to about 45007. This is really the only inaccuracy of the slightest moment that we have been able to ...
... took place after 1688. When Sunderland was in power , the livre was worth about eighteen pence , and his pension consequently amounted to about 45007. This is really the only inaccuracy of the slightest moment that we have been able to ...
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... took occasion to ask me , so as nobody observed it , if we had a mind to have the king in our hands . I said by no means , for we would not hurt his person . He asked next , what if he had a mind to go away ? I said nothing was so much ...
... took occasion to ask me , so as nobody observed it , if we had a mind to have the king in our hands . I said by no means , for we would not hurt his person . He asked next , what if he had a mind to go away ? I said nothing was so much ...
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... took place in the faculties of the human mind , or in the mode of discovering truth , we are reformers : we are on the side of progress . From the great advances which European society has made , during the last four centuries , in ...
... took place in the faculties of the human mind , or in the mode of discovering truth , we are reformers : we are on the side of progress . From the great advances which European society has made , during the last four centuries , in ...
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... took their stand not on a general theory , but on the particular constitution of the realm . They as- serted the rights , not of men , but of Englishmen . Their doctrines , therefore , were not contagious , and , had it been otherwise ...
... took their stand not on a general theory , but on the particular constitution of the realm . They as- serted the rights , not of men , but of Englishmen . Their doctrines , therefore , were not contagious , and , had it been otherwise ...
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... took the sure course . He employed only his legal preroga- tives , and he found them amply sufficient for his purpose . During the first eighteen or nineteen years of his reign , he had been playing the game of his enemies . From 1678 ...
... took the sure course . He employed only his legal preroga- tives , and he found them amply sufficient for his purpose . During the first eighteen or nineteen years of his reign , he had been playing the game of his enemies . From 1678 ...
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