Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... extraordinary powers . Relig ious zeal , chivalrous love and honour , democratic liberty , are the three most powerful principles that have ever in- fluenced the character of large masses of men . Each 56 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... extraordinary powers . Relig ious zeal , chivalrous love and honour , democratic liberty , are the three most powerful principles that have ever in- fluenced the character of large masses of men . Each 56 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... principle any reference to the sabbatical ordinance ? Or is it to the order of rhymes that these singular properties are attached ? Unhappily the sonnets of Shakspeare differ as much in this respect from those of Petrarch , as from a ...
... principle any reference to the sabbatical ordinance ? Or is it to the order of rhymes that these singular properties are attached ? Unhappily the sonnets of Shakspeare differ as much in this respect from those of Petrarch , as from a ...
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... principles found out ex post facto . Let us not judge by the spirit of one generation a man whose disposition had been formed by the temper and fashion of another . " " Nay , but conceive me , Mr. Cowley , " said Mr. Mil- ton ...
... principles found out ex post facto . Let us not judge by the spirit of one generation a man whose disposition had been formed by the temper and fashion of another . " " Nay , but conceive me , Mr. Cowley , " said Mr. Mil- ton ...
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... Principle of their Increase . By MICHAEL THOMAS SADLER , M.P. 2 vols . 8vo . London : 1830 . one . We did not expect a good book from Mr. Sadler : and it is well that we did not ; for he has given us a very bad The matter of his ...
... Principle of their Increase . By MICHAEL THOMAS SADLER , M.P. 2 vols . 8vo . London : 1830 . one . We did not expect a good book from Mr. Sadler : and it is well that we did not ; for he has given us a very bad The matter of his ...
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... principle of population should be carried on with all the license of the seventeenth century , we can have no personal objections . We are quite as little afraid of a contest in which quarter shall be neither given nor taken as he can ...
... principle of population should be carried on with all the license of the seventeenth century , we can have no personal objections . We are quite as little afraid of a contest in which quarter shall be neither given nor taken as he can ...
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