Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... course of that miserable in- trigue which was carried on round the dying bed of Edward the Sixth , Cecil so bemeaned himself as to avoid , first , the displeasure of Northumberland , and afterwards the displeasure of Mary . He was pru ...
... course of that miserable in- trigue which was carried on round the dying bed of Edward the Sixth , Cecil so bemeaned himself as to avoid , first , the displeasure of Northumberland , and afterwards the displeasure of Mary . He was pru ...
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... course , a persecuting church . Edward persecuted Catholics . Mary persecuted Protestants . Elizabeth persecuted Catholics again . The father of those three sovereigns had enjoyed the pleasure of persecuting both sects at once , and had ...
... course , a persecuting church . Edward persecuted Catholics . Mary persecuted Protestants . Elizabeth persecuted Catholics again . The father of those three sovereigns had enjoyed the pleasure of persecuting both sects at once , and had ...
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... course . When Henry the Eighth attempted to raise a forced loan of unusual amount by proceedings of unusual rigour , the opposition which he encountered was such as appalled even his stubborn and imperious spirit . The people , we are ...
... course . When Henry the Eighth attempted to raise a forced loan of unusual amount by proceedings of unusual rigour , the opposition which he encountered was such as appalled even his stubborn and imperious spirit . The people , we are ...
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... course of a war which endangered every throne on the Continent . The victorious and imperial nation which had filled its museums with the spoils of Antwerp , of Florence , and of Rome , was suffering painfully from the want of luxuries ...
... course of a war which endangered every throne on the Continent . The victorious and imperial nation which had filled its museums with the spoils of Antwerp , of Florence , and of Rome , was suffering painfully from the want of luxuries ...
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... during the seventeenth century . The Mexican mines were , through the reigns of Philip the Fourth and Charles the Second , in a steady course of improvement ; and in South America , though the district of Potosi was 44 LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
... during the seventeenth century . The Mexican mines were , through the reigns of Philip the Fourth and Charles the Second , in a steady course of improvement ; and in South America , though the district of Potosi was 44 LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
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