Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... reasons for exacting money rigorously , and for keeping it carefully . It must , however , be ac- knowledged that he was rigorous and careful for the public advantage as well as for his own . To extol his moral character as Dr. Nares ...
... reasons for exacting money rigorously , and for keeping it carefully . It must , however , be ac- knowledged that he was rigorous and careful for the public advantage as well as for his own . To extol his moral character as Dr. Nares ...
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... reason against a Caste . The one was a struggle of the laity against the clergy for intellectual liberty ; the other was a struggle of the people against princes and nobles for political liberty . In both cases , the spirit of ...
... reason against a Caste . The one was a struggle of the laity against the clergy for intellectual liberty ; the other was a struggle of the people against princes and nobles for political liberty . In both cases , the spirit of ...
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... reason is simply that they will not bear to be ill governed . In some of the Oriental monarchies , in Afghanistan for example , though there exists nothing which an European publicist would call a Constitution , the sovereign generally ...
... reason is simply that they will not bear to be ill governed . In some of the Oriental monarchies , in Afghanistan for example , though there exists nothing which an European publicist would call a Constitution , the sovereign generally ...
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... reason , that they were her successors . She governed one generation , they go- verned another ; and between the two generations there was almost as little in common as between the people of two different countries . It was not by ...
... reason , that they were her successors . She governed one generation , they go- verned another ; and between the two generations there was almost as little in common as between the people of two different countries . It was not by ...
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... reason to believe that his annual revenue amounted , in the season of his greatest power , to a sum near ten times as large as that which England yielded to Elizabeth . He had a standing army of fifty thousand excellent troops THE ...
... reason to believe that his annual revenue amounted , in the season of his greatest power , to a sum near ten times as large as that which England yielded to Elizabeth . He had a standing army of fifty thousand excellent troops THE ...
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