Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... Europe in constant agitation , were buried in the same grave with the proud and sullen Philip . The life of Burleigh was commensurate also with the period during which a great moral revolution was effected , a revolution the ...
... Europe in constant agitation , were buried in the same grave with the proud and sullen Philip . The life of Burleigh was commensurate also with the period during which a great moral revolution was effected , a revolution the ...
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... Europe . The only event of modern times which can be properly compared with the Reformation is the French Revolution , or , to speak more accurately , that great revolution of political feeling which took place in almost every part of ...
... Europe . The only event of modern times which can be properly compared with the Reformation is the French Revolution , or , to speak more accurately , that great revolution of political feeling which took place in almost every part of ...
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... Europe swarmed with exiles . In moody and turbulent spirits zeal soured into malignity , or foamed into madness . From the political agitation of the eighteenth century sprang the Jacobins . From the religious agitation of the sixteenth ...
... Europe swarmed with exiles . In moody and turbulent spirits zeal soured into malignity , or foamed into madness . From the political agitation of the eighteenth century sprang the Jacobins . From the religious agitation of the sixteenth ...
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... Europe . Yet the Scotch are not ill governed . And the reason is simply that they will not bear to be ill governed . In some of the Oriental monarchies , in Afghanistan for example , though there exists nothing which an European ...
... Europe . Yet the Scotch are not ill governed . And the reason is simply that they will not bear to be ill governed . In some of the Oriental monarchies , in Afghanistan for example , though there exists nothing which an European ...
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... Europe , the reverence in which the Roman pontiffs were held . It is clear that , a hundred years before the time of Luther , a great party in this kingdom was eager for a change at least as extensive as that which was sub- sequently ...
... Europe , the reverence in which the Roman pontiffs were held . It is clear that , a hundred years before the time of Luther , a great party in this kingdom was eager for a change at least as extensive as that which was sub- sequently ...
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