Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... opinion generally entertained by judicious readers of history concerning his hero . Lord Burleigh can hardly be called a great man . He was not one of those whose genius and energy change the fate of empires . He was by nature and habit ...
... opinion generally entertained by judicious readers of history concerning his hero . Lord Burleigh can hardly be called a great man . He was not one of those whose genius and energy change the fate of empires . He was by nature and habit ...
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... , the jesuitical doctrine of the direction of intentions . We do not blame Cecil for not choosing to be burned . The deep stain upon his memory is that , for differences of opinion for which he would risk nothing 6 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
... , the jesuitical doctrine of the direction of intentions . We do not blame Cecil for not choosing to be burned . The deep stain upon his memory is that , for differences of opinion for which he would risk nothing 6 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. for differences of opinion for which he would risk nothing himself , he , in the day of his power , took away without scruple the lives of others . One of the excuses suggested in these Memoirs ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. for differences of opinion for which he would risk nothing himself , he , in the day of his power , took away without scruple the lives of others . One of the excuses suggested in these Memoirs ...
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... opinions . The violence of the democratic party in France made Burke a Tory and Alfieri a courtier . The violence of the chiefs of the German schisin made Erasmus a defender of abuses , and turned the author of Utopia into a 10 BURLEIGH ...
... opinions . The violence of the democratic party in France made Burke a Tory and Alfieri a courtier . The violence of the chiefs of the German schisin made Erasmus a defender of abuses , and turned the author of Utopia into a 10 BURLEIGH ...
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... language as haughty and imperious as that which the Great Turk would use to his divan . She punished with great severity members of the House of Com- mons who , in her opinion , carried the freedom 14 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
... language as haughty and imperious as that which the Great Turk would use to his divan . She punished with great severity members of the House of Com- mons who , in her opinion , carried the freedom 14 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
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