Critical and historical essaysDent, 1966 |
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... writer who , steadily attached to principles , is indifferent about names and badges , and who judges of characters ... writers of different parties than the history of the Reformation . In this labyrinth of falsehood and sophistry , the ...
... writer who , steadily attached to principles , is indifferent about names and badges , and who judges of characters ... writers of different parties than the history of the Reformation . In this labyrinth of falsehood and sophistry , the ...
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... writer thinks fit to speak of all things that were done before the coming in of the very last fashions in politics . We think that we have sometimes observed a leaning towards the same fault in writers of a much higher order of ...
... writer thinks fit to speak of all things that were done before the coming in of the very last fashions in politics . We think that we have sometimes observed a leaning towards the same fault in writers of a much higher order of ...
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... writers . " Who , then , were the first writers of England in the year 1753 ? Walpole has told us in a note . Our ... writer with whom we are acquainted . His composition often reads , for a page together , like a rude translation ...
... writers . " Who , then , were the first writers of England in the year 1753 ? Walpole has told us in a note . Our ... writer with whom we are acquainted . His composition often reads , for a page together , like a rude translation ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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