Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Page 5
... present drowning not to swim with the stream . But , as the philosopher tells us , that , though the planets be whirled about daily from east to west , by the motion of the primum mobile , yet have they also a contrary proper motion of ...
... present drowning not to swim with the stream . But , as the philosopher tells us , that , though the planets be whirled about daily from east to west , by the motion of the primum mobile , yet have they also a contrary proper motion of ...
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... presents to us is the gigantic strength of the government contrasted with the feebleness of the religious parties . During the twelve or thirteen years which followed the death of Henry the Eighth , the religion of the state was thrice ...
... presents to us is the gigantic strength of the government contrasted with the feebleness of the religious parties . During the twelve or thirteen years which followed the death of Henry the Eighth , the religion of the state was thrice ...
Page 34
... present afford . We therefore stop here , fearing that , if we proceed , our article may swell to a bulk exceeding that of all other reviews , as much as Dr. Nares's book exceeds the bulk of all other histories . ! 1 35 WAR OF THE ...
... present afford . We therefore stop here , fearing that , if we proceed , our article may swell to a bulk exceeding that of all other reviews , as much as Dr. Nares's book exceeds the bulk of all other histories . ! 1 35 WAR OF THE ...
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... presents to the Rome of Marius and Cæsar . Foreign conquest had begun to eat into every part of that gigantic monarchy on which . the sun never set . Holland was gone , and Portugal , and Artois , and Roussillon , and Franche Comté . In ...
... presents to the Rome of Marius and Cæsar . Foreign conquest had begun to eat into every part of that gigantic monarchy on which . the sun never set . Holland was gone , and Portugal , and Artois , and Roussillon , and Franche Comté . In ...
Page 88
... present few members of the Con- servative Club who would not have been fully quali- fied to sit with Halifax and Somers at the Kit - cat . Though , therefore , we admit that a modern Tory bears some resemblance to a Whig of Queen Anne's ...
... present few members of the Con- servative Club who would not have been fully quali- fied to sit with Halifax and Somers at the Kit - cat . Though , therefore , we admit that a modern Tory bears some resemblance to a Whig of Queen Anne's ...
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