Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... took a priest into his house . Dr. Nares , whose sim- plicity passes that of any casuist with whom we are acquainted , vindicates his hero by assuring us that this was not superstition , but pure unmixed hypocrisy . “ That he did in ...
... took a priest into his house . Dr. Nares , whose sim- plicity passes that of any casuist with whom we are acquainted , vindicates his hero by assuring us that this was not superstition , but pure unmixed hypocrisy . “ That he did in ...
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... took away without scruple the lives of others . One of the excuses suggested in these Memoirs for his con- forming , during the reign of Mary , to the Church of Rome , is that he may have been of the same mind with those German ...
... took away without scruple the lives of others . One of the excuses suggested in these Memoirs for his con- forming , during the reign of Mary , to the Church of Rome , is that he may have been of the same mind with those German ...
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... took his ease , while the haughty heirs of the Fitzalans and the De Veres humbled themselves to the dust around him . At length having survived all his early coadjutors , and rivals , he died full of years and honours . His royal ...
... took his ease , while the haughty heirs of the Fitzalans and the De Veres humbled themselves to the dust around him . At length having survived all his early coadjutors , and rivals , he died full of years and honours . His royal ...
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... took place in almost every part of the civilised world during the eighteenth century , and which obtained in France its most terrible and signal triumph . Each of these memorable events may be described as a rising up of the human ...
... took place in almost every part of the civilised world during the eighteenth century , and which obtained in France its most terrible and signal triumph . Each of these memorable events may be described as a rising up of the human ...
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... 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 other bows to oppose to c 2 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . 19.
... 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 other bows to oppose to c 2 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . 19.
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