Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... passed by which the penalties of high treason were de- nounced against persons who should do in sincerity what he had done from cowardice . Early in the reign of Mary , Cecil was employed in a mission scarcely consistent with the ...
... passed by which the penalties of high treason were de- nounced against persons who should do in sincerity what he had done from cowardice . Early in the reign of Mary , Cecil was employed in a mission scarcely consistent with the ...
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... passed , with little diminution , to a son who inherited his abilities , and whose 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 ...
... passed , with little diminution , to a son who inherited his abilities , and whose 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 ...
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... passed into a proverb , a people whose high and fierce spirit , so forcibly described in the haughty motto which ... passing of the Reform Act . 1 be better governed under a good constitution than under a 18 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
... passed into a proverb , a people whose high and fierce spirit , so forcibly described in the haughty motto which ... passing of the Reform Act . 1 be better governed under a good constitution than under a 18 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
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... passing resolutions , signing peti- tions , forming associations and unions , they rose up ; they took their halberds and their bows ; and , if the sovereign was not sufficiently popular to find among his subjects other halberds and ...
... passing resolutions , signing peti- tions , forming associations and unions , they rose up ; they took their halberds and their bows ; and , if the sovereign was not sufficiently popular to find among his subjects other halberds and ...
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... passed in wealth and splendour that which their old tyrants still retained . In the West , England had seized , and still held , settlements in the midst of the Mexican sea . moment . The mere loss of territory was , however , of little ...
... passed in wealth and splendour that which their old tyrants still retained . In the West , England had seized , and still held , settlements in the midst of the Mexican sea . moment . The mere loss of territory was , however , of little ...
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