Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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... questions , yet an- grily debated ; and in the poem of The Battle of Naseby , which purports to be written by Obadiah Bind - their - Kings - in - Chains - and - their - Nobles - with - links -of - Iron , Serjeant , in Ireton's Regiment ...
... questions , yet an- grily debated ; and in the poem of The Battle of Naseby , which purports to be written by Obadiah Bind - their - Kings - in - Chains - and - their - Nobles - with - links -of - Iron , Serjeant , in Ireton's Regiment ...
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... questions of taste ; and therefore they willing- ly submit to any guide who boldly asserts his claim to superior discernment . It is more difficult to ascertain and establish the merits of a poem than the powers of a machine or the ...
... questions of taste ; and therefore they willing- ly submit to any guide who boldly asserts his claim to superior discernment . It is more difficult to ascertain and establish the merits of a poem than the powers of a machine or the ...
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... question to pieces , as Melesigenes would say . First , then , we must inquire what is knowledge ? Secondly , what is a father ? Now , knowledge , as Socrates said the other day to Theætetus , 3 1 See Theocritus ; Idyll ii . 128 . 2 ...
... question to pieces , as Melesigenes would say . First , then , we must inquire what is knowledge ? Secondly , what is a father ? Now , knowledge , as Socrates said the other day to Theætetus , 3 1 See Theocritus ; Idyll ii . 128 . 2 ...
Page 108
... question . The steward , accordingly , brought a dozen physi- cians to examine Sir Habeas . After consultation , they reported that he was in a very bad way , and ought not , on any account , to be allowed to stir out for several months ...
... question . The steward , accordingly , brought a dozen physi- cians to examine Sir Habeas . After consultation , they reported that he was in a very bad way , and ought not , on any account , to be allowed to stir out for several months ...
Page 120
... question . What pledge could he give which he had not already vio- lated ? From the first year of his reign , whenever he had need of the purses of his Commons to support the revels of Buckingham or the processions of Laud , he had ...
... question . What pledge could he give which he had not already vio- lated ? From the first year of his reign , whenever he had need of the purses of his Commons to support the revels of Buckingham or the processions of Laud , he had ...
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