Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... side , if he refused to act at all , he ran a fearful risk . He saw all the dif- ficulties of his position . He sent his money and plate out of London , made over his estates to his son , and carried arms about his person . His best ...
... side , if he refused to act at all , he ran a fearful risk . He saw all the dif- ficulties of his position . He sent his money and plate out of London , made over his estates to his son , and carried arms about his person . His best ...
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... side of the government , and the insurgents were speedily put down and punished . The Kentish gentlemen who took up arms for the reformed doctrines against Mary , and the great Northern Earls who displayed the banner of the Five Wounds ...
... side of the government , and the insurgents were speedily put down and punished . The Kentish gentlemen who took up arms for the reformed doctrines against Mary , and the great Northern Earls who displayed the banner of the Five Wounds ...
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... side , who were inclined to make any sacrifice or run any risk for either religion , were very few . Each side had a few enterprising champions , and a few stout - hearted martyrs ; but the nation , undetermined in its opinions and ...
... side , who were inclined to make any sacrifice or run any risk for either religion , were very few . Each side had a few enterprising champions , and a few stout - hearted martyrs ; but the nation , undetermined in its opinions and ...
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... side of her character . Yet she surely was a great woman . Of all the sovereigns who exercised a power which was seemingly absolute , but which in fact depended for support on the love and confidence of their subjects , she was by far ...
... side of her character . Yet she surely was a great woman . Of all the sovereigns who exercised a power which was seemingly absolute , but which in fact depended for support on the love and confidence of their subjects , she was by far ...
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... sides of the Rhine , Franche Comté , Roussillon , the Milanese , and the Two Sicilies . Tuscany , Parma , and the ... side of the equator into the temperate zone . There is reason to believe that his annual revenue amounted , in the ...
... sides of the Rhine , Franche Comté , Roussillon , the Milanese , and the Two Sicilies . Tuscany , Parma , and the ... side of the equator into the temperate zone . There is reason to believe that his annual revenue amounted , in the ...
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