Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum . But unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence ...
... considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum . But unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence ...
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... considered the popish rites as matters indifferent . Melancthon was one of these moderate persons , and " appears , " says Dr. Nares , " to have gone greater lengths than any imputed to Lord Burleigh . " We should have thought this not ...
... considered the popish rites as matters indifferent . Melancthon was one of these moderate persons , and " appears , " says Dr. Nares , " to have gone greater lengths than any imputed to Lord Burleigh . " We should have thought this not ...
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... considered as the foulest of treasons . The French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris . The Irish or Italian democrat saw no impropriety in serving the French Directory against his own ...
... considered as the foulest of treasons . The French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris . The Irish or Italian democrat saw no impropriety in serving the French Directory against his own ...
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... Kentish gentlemen who took up arms for the reformed doctrines against Mary , and the great Northern Earls who displayed the banner of the Five Wounds against Elizabeth , were alike considered by the great BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . 23.
... Kentish gentlemen who took up arms for the reformed doctrines against Mary , and the great Northern Earls who displayed the banner of the Five Wounds against Elizabeth , were alike considered by the great BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . 23.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. Wounds against Elizabeth , were alike considered by the great body of their countrymen as wicked dis- turbers of the public peace . The account which Cardinal Bentivoglio gave of the state of ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. Wounds against Elizabeth , were alike considered by the great body of their countrymen as wicked dis- turbers of the public peace . The account which Cardinal Bentivoglio gave of the state of ...
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