Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... means of certain legal fictions similar to those of Westminster Hall , we are frequently enabled to take cognisance of cases lying beyond the sphere of our original jurisdiction . We need hardly say , therefore , that in the present ...
... means of certain legal fictions similar to those of Westminster Hall , we are frequently enabled to take cognisance of cases lying beyond the sphere of our original jurisdiction . We need hardly say , therefore , that in the present ...
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... means of accelerating the moment of deliverance and revenge . Another supposition which Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious ...
... means of accelerating the moment of deliverance and revenge . Another supposition which Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious ...
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... means are those which are the surest , the speediest , and the darkest . He cannot comprehend how a man should scruple to deceive those whom he does not scruple to destroy . He would think it madness to declare open hostilities against ...
... means are those which are the surest , the speediest , and the darkest . He cannot comprehend how a man should scruple to deceive those whom he does not scruple to destroy . He would think it madness to declare open hostilities against ...
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... means one of his best plays ; nor is it one which offers great facilities to an imitator . The story is as alien from modern habits of life , as the manner in which it is developed from the modern fashion of composition . The lover ...
... means one of his best plays ; nor is it one which offers great facilities to an imitator . The story is as alien from modern habits of life , as the manner in which it is developed from the modern fashion of composition . The lover ...
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... means sufficient to familiarise him with the exercise of a man - at - arms , might render him an useful foot - soldier . The dread of a foreign yoke , of plunder , massacre , and conflagration , might have conquered that repug- nance to ...
... means sufficient to familiarise him with the exercise of a man - at - arms , might render him an useful foot - soldier . The dread of a foreign yoke , of plunder , massacre , and conflagration , might have conquered that repug- nance to ...
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