Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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... head of the party opposed to the Court . Yet , so guarded was his language that , even when some of those who acted with him were imprisoned by the Privy Council , he escaped with impunity . At length Mary died : Elizabeth succeeded ...
... head of the party opposed to the Court . Yet , so guarded was his language that , even when some of those who acted with him were imprisoned by the Privy Council , he escaped with impunity . At length Mary died : Elizabeth succeeded ...
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... heads of that very church to which liberal studies were destined to be fatal . In both cases , when the explosion came , it came with a violence which appalled and disgusted many of those who had previously been distinguished by the ...
... heads of that very church to which liberal studies were destined to be fatal . In both cases , when the explosion came , it came with a violence which appalled and disgusted many of those who had previously been distinguished by the ...
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... head of the movement , and thus acquired power to regulate , and occasionally to arrest , the movement . To many persons it appears extraordinary that Henry the Eighth should have been able to maintain himself so long in an intermediate ...
... head of the movement , and thus acquired power to regulate , and occasionally to arrest , the movement . To many persons it appears extraordinary that Henry the Eighth should have been able to maintain himself so long in an intermediate ...
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... head of a religious house ; an Abbé is quite a different sort of person . It is better undoubtedly to use an English word than a French word ; but it is better to use a French word than to misuse an English word . Lord Mahon is also a ...
... head of a religious house ; an Abbé is quite a different sort of person . It is better undoubtedly to use an English word than a French word ; but it is better to use a French word than to misuse an English word . Lord Mahon is also a ...
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... head of a storming party . Alonzo de Ercilla bore a conspicuous part in that war of Arauco , which he afterwards celebrated in one of the best heroic poems that Spain has produced . Hurtado de Men- doza , whose poems have been compared ...
... head of a storming party . Alonzo de Ercilla bore a conspicuous part in that war of Arauco , which he afterwards celebrated in one of the best heroic poems that Spain has produced . Hurtado de Men- doza , whose poems have been compared ...
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