Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... minister , skilled in the details of business , competent to advise , but not aspiring to command . And such a minister she found in Burleigh . No arts could shake the confidence which she reposed in her old and trusty servant . The ...
... minister , skilled in the details of business , competent to advise , but not aspiring to command . And such a minister she found in Burleigh . No arts could shake the confidence which she reposed in her old and trusty servant . The ...
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... minister , by birth only a plain Lincoln- shire esquire , took his ease , while the haughty heirs of the Fitzalans and the De Veres humbled themselves to the dust around him . At length having survived all his early coadjutors , and ...
... minister , by birth only a plain Lincoln- shire esquire , took his ease , while the haughty heirs of the Fitzalans and the De Veres humbled themselves to the dust around him . At length having survived all his early coadjutors , and ...
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... ministers and courtiers , this the nation granted to the Tudors . But the condition on which they were suffered to be the tyrants of White- hall was that they should be the mild and paternal sovereigns of England . They were under the ...
... ministers and courtiers , this the nation granted to the Tudors . But the condition on which they were suffered to be the tyrants of White- hall was that they should be the mild and paternal sovereigns of England . They were under the ...
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... ministers . At the very beginning of the reign of Henry the Eighth , a struggle took place between the clergy and the courts of law , in which the courts of law remained victorious . One of the bishops , on that occasion , declared that ...
... ministers . At the very beginning of the reign of Henry the Eighth , a struggle took place between the clergy and the courts of law , in which the courts of law remained victorious . One of the bishops , on that occasion , declared that ...
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... ministers were assailed , two generations later , by dramatists who wished to please the multitude . We remember no Friar Dominic , no Father Foigard , among the characters drawn by those great poets . The scene at the close of the ...
... ministers were assailed , two generations later , by dramatists who wished to please the multitude . We remember no Friar Dominic , no Father Foigard , among the characters drawn by those great poets . The scene at the close of the ...
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