Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... danger . His situation rendered it impossible for him to be neutral . If he acted on either side , if he refused to act at all , he ran a fearful risk . He saw all the dif- ficulties of his position . He sent his money and plate out of ...
... danger . His situation rendered it impossible for him to be neutral . If he acted on either side , if he refused to act at all , he ran a fearful risk . He saw all the dif- ficulties of his position . He sent his money and plate out of ...
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... danger of severe penalties . Yet we know that it Such was this government . was loved by the great body of those who lived under it . We know that , during the fierce contests of the seventeenth century , both the hostile parties spoke ...
... danger of severe penalties . Yet we know that it Such was this government . was loved by the great body of those who lived under it . We know that , during the fierce contests of the seventeenth century , both the hostile parties spoke ...
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... dangerous to grind their subjects with cruel taxation as Nero would have found it to leave his prętorians unpaid ... dangers . Buckingham , Cromwell , Surrey , Seymour of Sudeley , Somerset , Northumberland , Suf- folk , Norfolk , Essex ...
... dangerous to grind their subjects with cruel taxation as Nero would have found it to leave his prętorians unpaid ... dangers . Buckingham , Cromwell , Surrey , Seymour of Sudeley , Somerset , Northumberland , Suf- folk , Norfolk , Essex ...
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... danger to her government , without scandal to any large party among her sub- jects . The nation , as it was clearly ready to profess either religion , would , beyond all doubt , have been ready to tolerate both . Unhappily for her own ...
... danger to her government , without scandal to any large party among her sub- jects . The nation , as it was clearly ready to profess either religion , would , beyond all doubt , have been ready to tolerate both . Unhappily for her own ...
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... dangerous neigh- bour to the Queen's isles of Jersey and Guernsey , ancient possessions of this crown , and never conquered in the greatest wars with France . " The ascendency which Spain then had in Europe was , in one sense , well ...
... dangerous neigh- bour to the Queen's isles of Jersey and Guernsey , ancient possessions of this crown , and never conquered in the greatest wars with France . " The ascendency which Spain then had in Europe was , in one sense , well ...
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