Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... party , but consented to sign as a witness . It is not easy to describe his dexterous conduct at this most perplexing crisis , in language more appropriate than that which is em- ployed by old Fuller . " His hand wrote it as secretary ...
... party , but consented to sign as a witness . It is not easy to describe his dexterous conduct at this most perplexing crisis , in language more appropriate than that which is em- ployed by old Fuller . " His hand wrote it as secretary ...
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... party opposed to the Court . Yet , so guarded was his language that , even when some of those who acted with him were imprisoned by the Privy Council , he escaped with impunity . At length Mary died : Elizabeth succeeded ; and Cecil ...
... party opposed to the Court . Yet , so guarded was his language that , even when some of those who acted with him were imprisoned by the Privy Council , he escaped with impunity . At length Mary died : Elizabeth succeeded ; and Cecil ...
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... 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 AND HIS TIMES .
... 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 AND HIS TIMES .
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... Party- spirit seemed to justify and consecrate acts which , in any other times , would have been considered as the foulest of treasons . The French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris ...
... Party- spirit seemed to justify and consecrate acts which , in any other times , would have been considered as the foulest of treasons . The French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris ...
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... party and a zealous Catholic party . But both these parties were , we believe , very small . We doubt , whether both together made up , at the time of Mary's death , the twentieth part of the nation . The remaining nineteen 22 BURLEIGH ...
... party and a zealous Catholic party . But both these parties were , we believe , very small . We doubt , whether both together made up , at the time of Mary's death , the twentieth part of the nation . The remaining nineteen 22 BURLEIGH ...
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