Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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... able William Cecil Lord Burghley , Secretary of State in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth , and Lord High Treasurer of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth . Containing an Historical View of the Times in which he lived , and of the ...
... able William Cecil Lord Burghley , Secretary of State in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth , and Lord High Treasurer of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth . Containing an Historical View of the Times in which he lived , and of the ...
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... able , in the face of existing documents , to deny ; while we feel in our own minds abundantly satisfied , that , during this very trying reign , he never abandoned the prospect of another revolution in favour of Pro- testantism . " In ...
... able , in the face of existing documents , to deny ; while we feel in our own minds abundantly satisfied , that , during this very trying reign , he never abandoned the prospect of another revolution in favour of Pro- testantism . " In ...
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... able to establish the Catholic worship and to persecute those who would not con- form to it , it was evidently because the people cared far less for the Protestant religion than for the rights 22 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
... able to establish the Catholic worship and to persecute those who would not con- form to it , it was evidently because the people cared far less for the Protestant religion than for the rights 22 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
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... able to maintain himself so long in an intermediate position between the Catholic and Protestant parties . Most extra- ordinary it would indeed be , if we were to suppose that the nation consisted of none but decided Catholics and ...
... able to maintain himself so long in an intermediate position between the Catholic and Protestant parties . Most extra- ordinary it would indeed be , if we were to suppose that the nation consisted of none but decided Catholics and ...
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... able in those who can afford to be idle and who have every temptation to be dissipated . It is impossible not to wish success to a man who , finding himself placed , without any exertion or any merit on his part , above the mass of ...
... able in those who can afford to be idle and who have every temptation to be dissipated . It is impossible not to wish success to a man who , finding himself placed , without any exertion or any merit on his part , above the mass of ...
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