Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... ministers ; it was patronized by successive kings ; it numbered in its lists most of the eminent French writers . Yet what benefit has literature derived from its labors ? What is its history but an unin- terrupted record of servile ...
... ministers ; it was patronized by successive kings ; it numbered in its lists most of the eminent French writers . Yet what benefit has literature derived from its labors ? What is its history but an unin- terrupted record of servile ...
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... minister to it the same miserable kind of relief wherewith the wizards of Pharaoh mocked the Egyptian . We read that , when Moses had turned their , waters into blood , those impious magicians , intending , not to benefit to the ...
... minister to it the same miserable kind of relief wherewith the wizards of Pharaoh mocked the Egyptian . We read that , when Moses had turned their , waters into blood , those impious magicians , intending , not to benefit to the ...
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... ministers , he went himself armed to assail it . In the birth - place and sanctuary of freedom , in the House itself , nay , in the very chair of the speaker , placed for the protection of free speech and priv- ilege , he sat , rolling ...
... ministers , he went himself armed to assail it . In the birth - place and sanctuary of freedom , in the House itself , nay , in the very chair of the speaker , placed for the protection of free speech and priv- ilege , he sat , rolling ...
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... minister is it that speaks thus ? " says Mr. Sadler , after misrepresenting in a most extra- ordinary manner , though , we are willing to believe , unintentionally , one of the positions of Mr. Malthus . " Whose minister is it that ...
... minister is it that speaks thus ? " says Mr. Sadler , after misrepresenting in a most extra- ordinary manner , though , we are willing to believe , unintentionally , one of the positions of Mr. Malthus . " Whose minister is it that ...
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... ministers who had signed the ordinances , those ministers , whose guilt , as it was of the foulest kind , was proved by the clearest evidence , were punished only with imprison- ment . In the first revolution , property was attacked ...
... ministers who had signed the ordinances , those ministers , whose guilt , as it was of the foulest kind , was proved by the clearest evidence , were punished only with imprison- ment . In the first revolution , property was attacked ...
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