Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... mind , and I went to the oar . Guicciardini , though certainly not the most amusing of writers , is a Herodotus or a Froissart , when compared with Dr. Nares . It is not merely in bulk , but in specific gravity also , that these memoirs ...
... mind , and I went to the oar . Guicciardini , though certainly not the most amusing of writers , is a Herodotus or a Froissart , when compared with Dr. Nares . It is not merely in bulk , but in specific gravity also , that these memoirs ...
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... in Cecil's conduct on this occasion ; for , says he , Cecil continued to stand well with Cranmer . This , we confess , hardly satisfies us . We are much of the mind of Falstaff's tailor . We must have better as- 4 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
... in Cecil's conduct on this occasion ; for , says he , Cecil continued to stand well with Cranmer . This , we confess , hardly satisfies us . We are much of the mind of Falstaff's tailor . We must have better as- 4 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. mind of Falstaff's tailor . We must have better as- surance for Sir John than Bardolph's . We like not the security . Through the whole course of that miserable in- trigue which was carried on ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. mind of Falstaff's tailor . We must have better as- surance for Sir John than Bardolph's . We like not the security . Through the whole course of that miserable in- trigue which was carried on ...
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... mind with those German Protestants who were called Adiaphorists , and who considered the popish rites as matters indifferent . Melancthon was one of these moderate persons , and " appears , " says Dr. Nares , " to have gone greater ...
... mind with those German Protestants who were called Adiaphorists , and who considered the popish rites as matters indifferent . Melancthon was one of these moderate persons , and " appears , " says Dr. Nares , " to have gone greater ...
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... mind had been formed by his counsels . The life of Burleigh was commensurate with one of the most important periods in the history of the world . It exactly measures the time during which the House of Austria held decided superiority ...
... mind had been formed by his counsels . The life of Burleigh was commensurate with one of the most important periods in the history of the world . It exactly measures the time during which the House of Austria held decided superiority ...
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