Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 pages |
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... important principle . > From these considerations we infer , that no poet who should affect that metaphysical accuracy for the want of X which Milton has been blamed , would escape a disgraceful • failure . Still , however , there was ...
... important principle . > From these considerations we infer , that no poet who should affect that metaphysical accuracy for the want of X which Milton has been blamed , would escape a disgraceful • failure . Still , however , there was ...
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... to Charles I. shall appear to be justifiable or criminal . We shall there- fore make no apology for dedicating a few pages to the dis cussion of that interesting and most important question . We 34 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... to Charles I. shall appear to be justifiable or criminal . We shall there- fore make no apology for dedicating a few pages to the dis cussion of that interesting and most important question . We 34 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. cussion of that interesting and most important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds , we shall not recur to those primary principles from which the claim of any government to the ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. cussion of that interesting and most important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds , we shall not recur to those primary principles from which the claim of any government to the ...
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... important of all hu- man relations . And if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity ...
... important of all hu- man relations . And if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity ...
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... important , would not alter our opinion of an event , which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath the sceptres of Brandenburg and Braganza . Many evils , no doubt , were produced by the civil war . They the ...
... important , would not alter our opinion of an event , which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath the sceptres of Brandenburg and Braganza . Many evils , no doubt , were produced by the civil war . They the ...
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