Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... century , kept 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 ...
... century , kept 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 ...
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... century , and which obtained in France its most terrible and signal triumph . Each of these memorable events may be described as a rising up of the human reason against a Caste . The one was a struggle of the laity against the clergy ...
... century , and which obtained in France its most terrible and signal triumph . Each of these memorable events may be described as a rising up of the human reason against a Caste . The one was a struggle of the laity against the clergy ...
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... century sprang the Jacobins . From the religious agitation of the sixteenth century sprang the Anabaptists . The partisans of Robespierre robbed and murdered in the name of fraternity and equality . The followers of Kniperdoling robbed ...
... century sprang the Jacobins . From the religious agitation of the sixteenth century sprang the Anabaptists . The partisans of Robespierre robbed and murdered in the name of fraternity and equality . The followers of Kniperdoling robbed ...
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... century , the fury of theological factions suspended all national animosities and jealousies . The Spaniards were invited into France by the League ; the English were invited into France by the Huguenots . We by no means intend to ...
... century , the fury of theological factions suspended all national animosities and jealousies . The Spaniards were invited into France by the League ; the English were invited into France by the Huguenots . We by no means intend to ...
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... century as an absolute monarchy . And such undoubtedly it appears to a superficial observer . Elizabeth , it is true , often spoke to her parliaments in language as haughty and imperious as that which the Great Turk would use to his ...
... century as an absolute monarchy . And such undoubtedly it appears to a superficial observer . Elizabeth , it is true , often spoke to her parliaments in language as haughty and imperious as that which the Great Turk would use to his ...
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