Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... never deserted his friends till it was very incon- venient to stand by them , was an excellent Protestant when it was not very advantageous to be a Papist , re- commended a tolerant policy to his mistress as strongly as he could ...
... never deserted his friends till it was very incon- venient to stand by them , was an excellent Protestant when it was not very advantageous to be a Papist , re- commended a tolerant policy to his mistress as strongly as he could ...
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... never aban- doned the prospect of another revolution in favour of Protestantism . " In another place , the Doctor tells us , that Cecil went to mass " with no idolatrous intention . " Nobody , we believe , ever accused him of idolatrous ...
... never aban- doned the prospect of another revolution in favour of Protestantism . " In another place , the Doctor tells us , that Cecil went to mass " with no idolatrous intention . " Nobody , we believe , ever accused him of idolatrous ...
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... never be lulled into carelessness , a temper which could never be irritated into rashness . The Papists could find no occasion against him . Yet he did not lose the esteem even of those sterner Protestants who had preferred exile to ...
... never be lulled into carelessness , a temper which could never be irritated into rashness . The Papists could find no occasion against him . Yet he did not lose the esteem even of those sterner Protestants who had preferred exile to ...
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... never committing errors . If such a man as Charles the First had been in her place when the whole nation was crying out against the monopolies , he would have refused all redress . He would have dis- solved the Parliament , and ...
... never committing errors . If such a man as Charles the First had been in her place when the whole nation was crying out against the monopolies , he would have refused all redress . He would have dis- solved the Parliament , and ...
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... never withdrawn . She gave them too with a frankness , an effusion of heart , a princely dignity , a motherly tenderness , which en- hanced their value . They were received by the sturdy country gentlemen who had come up to Westminster ...
... never withdrawn . She gave them too with a frankness , an effusion of heart , a princely dignity , a motherly tenderness , which en- hanced their value . They were received by the sturdy country gentlemen who had come up to Westminster ...
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