Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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... master of the palace . Cecil , therefore , according to his own account , excused himself from signing as a party , but consented to sign as a witness . It is not easy to describe his dexterous conduct at this most per- plexing crisis ...
... master of the palace . Cecil , therefore , according to his own account , excused himself from signing as a party , but consented to sign as a witness . It is not easy to describe his dexterous conduct at this most per- plexing crisis ...
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... masters of fleets and armies were often reduced to confess , like Milton's warlike angel , how hard they found it " To exclude Spiritual substance with corporeal bar . " Europe was divided , as Greece had been divided during the period ...
... masters of fleets and armies were often reduced to confess , like Milton's warlike angel , how hard they found it " To exclude Spiritual substance with corporeal bar . " Europe was divided , as Greece had been divided during the period ...
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... master into something very like a Tory , the events which followed the Congress of Vienna turned the pu- pil into something very like a Whig . So much are men the creatures of circumstances . We see that , if M. Dumont had died in 1799 ...
... master into something very like a Tory , the events which followed the Congress of Vienna turned the pu- pil into something very like a Whig . So much are men the creatures of circumstances . We see that , if M. Dumont had died in 1799 ...
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... master of what our James the First would have called king - craft , of all those arts which most advantageously display the merits of a prince , and most completely hide his defects . Though his internal administration was bad , though ...
... master of what our James the First would have called king - craft , of all those arts which most advantageously display the merits of a prince , and most completely hide his defects . Though his internal administration was bad , though ...
Page 77
... the King of Spain was master of the Philippines and of all those rich settlements which the Portuguese had made on the coasts of Malabar and Coromandel , in the zone . Peninsula of Malacca , and in the spice THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN . 77.
... the King of Spain was master of the Philippines and of all those rich settlements which the Portuguese had made on the coasts of Malabar and Coromandel , in the zone . Peninsula of Malacca , and in the spice THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN . 77.
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