Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... seems , fond of practical jokes . Yet even out of these he contrived to extract some pecuniary profit . When he was studying the law at Gray's Inn , he lost all his furniture and books at the gaming table to one of his friends . He ...
... seems , fond of practical jokes . Yet even out of these he contrived to extract some pecuniary profit . When he was studying the law at Gray's Inn , he lost all his furniture and books at the gaming table to one of his friends . He ...
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... seem probable that useful information might be derived , and was so moderate in his desires that he left only three hundred distinct landed estates , though he might , as his honest servant assures us , have left much more , " if he ...
... seem probable that useful information might be derived , and was so moderate in his desires that he left only three hundred distinct landed estates , though he might , as his honest servant assures us , have left much more , " if he ...
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... seems to us to be no solution at all . It has long been the fashion , a fashion introduced by Mr. Hume , to describe the English monarchy in the sixteenth century as an absolute monarchy . And such undoubtedly it appears to a ...
... seems to us to be no solution at all . It has long been the fashion , a fashion introduced by Mr. Hume , to describe the English monarchy in the sixteenth century as an absolute monarchy . And such undoubtedly it appears to a ...
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... seems to be that the government of the Tudors was , with a few occasional deviations , a popu- lar government , under the forms of despotism . At first sight , it may seem that the prerogatives of Elizabeth were not less ample than ...
... seems to be that the government of the Tudors was , with a few occasional deviations , a popu- lar government , under the forms of despotism . At first sight , it may seem that the prerogatives of Elizabeth were not less ample than ...
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... seems incredible that , if the Protestants were really two to one , they should have borne the government of Mary , or that , if the Catholics were really two to one , they should have borne the government of Elizabeth . We are at a ...
... seems incredible that , if the Protestants were really two to one , they should have borne the government of Mary , or that , if the Catholics were really two to one , they should have borne the government of Elizabeth . We are at a ...
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