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Page 63
... feeling should produce effects which would probably have attended it even in an age less dis- tinguished by laxity of principle and indelicacy of sentiment . It was not till a natural death had terminated the paralytic old age of the ...
... feeling should produce effects which would probably have attended it even in an age less dis- tinguished by laxity of principle and indelicacy of sentiment . It was not till a natural death had terminated the paralytic old age of the ...
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... feeling was here new . The support which was given to Wilkes , the clamour for reform during the Ameri- can war ... feels a pain in his toe . And in the same manner the people , in the earlier part of the late reign , sincerely ...
... feeling was here new . The support which was given to Wilkes , the clamour for reform during the Ameri- can war ... feels a pain in his toe . And in the same manner the people , in the earlier part of the late reign , sincerely ...
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... feeling , " says Clarendon , " the trouble and agony which usually attend generous and magnanimous minds upon their having committed errors " ; feeling , we should say , the despicable repentance which attends the man who , having ...
... feeling , " says Clarendon , " the trouble and agony which usually attend generous and magnanimous minds upon their having committed errors " ; feeling , we should say , the despicable repentance which attends the man who , having ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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