Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... prince . The troubles of Scotland are related as fully as in M'Crie's Life of John Knox . It would be most unjust to deny that Dr. Nares is a man of great industry and re- search ; but he is so utterly incompetent to arrange the ...
... prince . The troubles of Scotland are related as fully as in M'Crie's Life of John Knox . It would be most unjust to deny that Dr. Nares is a man of great industry and re- search ; but he is so utterly incompetent to arrange the ...
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... prince and country , to accept ten thousand men , and thirty ships amply furnished . " People who could give such signs as these of their loyalty were by no means to be misgoverned with impunity . The English in the sixteenth century ...
... prince and country , to accept ten thousand men , and thirty ships amply furnished . " People who could give such signs as these of their loyalty were by no means to be misgoverned with impunity . The English in the sixteenth century ...
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... Prince Ahmed's apple ; that priestcraft , that ignorance , that the rage of contending factions , may make good institutions . useless ; that intelligence , sobriety , industry , moral freedom , firm union , may supply in a great ...
... Prince Ahmed's apple ; that priestcraft , that ignorance , that the rage of contending factions , may make good institutions . useless ; that intelligence , sobriety , industry , moral freedom , firm union , may supply in a great ...
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... prince to impose upon them a religion generally detested . It is absurd to suppose that , if the nation had been decidedly attached to the Protestant faith , Mary could have re - established the Papal supremacy . It is equally absurd to ...
... prince to impose upon them a religion generally detested . It is absurd to suppose that , if the nation had been decidedly attached to the Protestant faith , Mary could have re - established the Papal supremacy . It is equally absurd to ...
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... Prince of Poets , and the Prince of Philosophers , who have made the Elizabethan age a more glorious and important era in the history of the human mind than the age of Pericles , of Augustus , or of Leo . But subjects so vast require a ...
... Prince of Poets , and the Prince of Philosophers , who have made the Elizabethan age a more glorious and important era in the history of the human mind than the age of Pericles , of Augustus , or of Leo . But subjects so vast require a ...
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