Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... believe , ever accused him of idolatrous intentions . The very ground of the charge against him is that he had no idolatrous intentions . We never should have blamed him if he had really gone to Wimbledon Church , with the feelings of a ...
... believe , ever accused him of idolatrous intentions . The very ground of the charge against him is that he had no idolatrous intentions . We never should have blamed him if he had really gone to Wimbledon Church , with the feelings of a ...
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... believe that this explosion , like that which preceded it , will fertilise the soil which it has devastated . Already , in those parts which have suffered most severely , rich cultivation and secure dwellings have begun to appear amidst ...
... believe that this explosion , like that which preceded it , will fertilise the soil which it has devastated . Already , in those parts which have suffered most severely , rich cultivation and secure dwellings have begun to appear amidst ...
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... Catholic party . But both these parties were , we believe , very small . We doubt , whether both together made up , at the time of Mary's death , the twentieth part of the nation . The remaining nineteen 22 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
... Catholic party . But both these parties were , we believe , very small . We doubt , whether both together made up , at the time of Mary's death , the twentieth part of the nation . The remaining nineteen 22 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
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... believe this account to have been very near the truth . We believe that the people , whose minds were made up on either side , who were inclined to make any sacrifice or run any risk for either religion , were very few . Each side had a ...
... believe this account to have been very near the truth . We believe that the people , whose minds were made up on either side , who were inclined to make any sacrifice or run any risk for either religion , were very few . Each side had a ...
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... believe that his annual revenue amounted , in the season of his greatest power , to a sum near ten times as large as that which England yielded to Elizabeth . He had a standing army of fifty thousand excellent troops THE SUCCESSION IN ...
... believe that his annual revenue amounted , in the season of his greatest power , to a sum near ten times as large as that which England yielded to Elizabeth . He had a standing army of fifty thousand excellent troops THE SUCCESSION IN ...
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