Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... King Edward the Sixth , and Lord High Treasurer of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth . Containing an Historical View of the Times in which he lived , and of the many eminent and illustrious Persons with whom he was connected ...
... King Edward the Sixth , and Lord High Treasurer of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth . Containing an Historical View of the Times in which he lived , and of the many eminent and illustrious Persons with whom he was connected ...
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... king's proclama- tion against vice and immorality , that which , without any constitution , keeps rulers in awe , force , and the spirit to use it . Parliaments , it is true , were rarely held , and were not very respectfully treated ...
... king's proclama- tion against vice and immorality , that which , without any constitution , keeps rulers in awe , force , and the spirit to use it . Parliaments , it is true , were rarely held , and were not very respectfully treated ...
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... king and Scotland's queen . " They were sometimes Protestants , sometimes Catho- lics ; sometimes half Protestants half Catholics . The English had not , for ages , been bigoted Papists . In the fourteenth century , the first , and ...
... king and Scotland's queen . " They were sometimes Protestants , sometimes Catho- lics ; sometimes half Protestants half Catholics . The English had not , for ages , been bigoted Papists . In the fourteenth century , the first , and ...
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... King John and Henry the Eighth was surely no friend to papal supremacy . There is , we think , only one solution of ... Kings , who " feared the Lord and served their graven images ; " like that of the Judaizing Christians who blended ...
... King John and Henry the Eighth was surely no friend to papal supremacy . There is , we think , only one solution of ... Kings , who " feared the Lord and served their graven images ; " like that of the Judaizing Christians who blended ...
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... King's deer on their way to Parliament , or as their old remedy of scandalum magnatum . Yet we must acknowledge that , though our political opinions are by no means aristocratical , we always feel kindly disposed towards noble authors ...
... King's deer on their way to Parliament , or as their old remedy of scandalum magnatum . Yet we must acknowledge that , though our political opinions are by no means aristocratical , we always feel kindly disposed towards noble authors ...
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