Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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Page 39
... look with great dread on the maritime power of Philip . " The King of Spain , " said the Lord Keeper to the two Houses in 1593 , " since he hath usurped upon the kingdom of Portugal , hath thereby grown mighty by gaining the East Indies ...
... look with great dread on the maritime power of Philip . " The King of Spain , " said the Lord Keeper to the two Houses in 1593 , " since he hath usurped upon the kingdom of Portugal , hath thereby grown mighty by gaining the East Indies ...
Page 42
... look at Spain towards the close of the seventeenth century , what a change do we find ! The contrast is as great as that which the Rome of Gallienus and Honorius presents to the Rome of Marius and Cæsar . Foreign conquest had begun to ...
... look at Spain towards the close of the seventeenth century , what a change do we find ! The contrast is as great as that which the Rome of Gallienus and Honorius presents to the Rome of Marius and Cæsar . Foreign conquest had begun to ...
Page 60
... look towards St. Germain's , were in office , and had a decided majority in the House of Commons . William was so much embarrassed by the state of parties in England that he could not venture to make war on the House of Bourbon . He was ...
... look towards St. Germain's , were in office , and had a decided majority in the House of Commons . William was so much embarrassed by the state of parties in England that he could not venture to make war on the House of Bourbon . He was ...
Page 111
... picturesque than those of the round - faced peers , as like each other as eggs to eggs , who look out from the middle of the periwigs - of Kneller . In the Memoirs , again , Walpole WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN . 111.
... picturesque than those of the round - faced peers , as like each other as eggs to eggs , who look out from the middle of the periwigs - of Kneller . In the Memoirs , again , Walpole WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN . 111.
Page 126
... looks like an Excise ; though , in my private opinion , I still think it was a scheme that would have tended much to the interest of the nation . " very The conduct of Walpole with regard to the Spanish war is the great blemish of his ...
... looks like an Excise ; though , in my private opinion , I still think it was a scheme that would have tended much to the interest of the nation . " very The conduct of Walpole with regard to the Spanish war is the great blemish of his ...
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