Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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... measure , and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois . Such a book might , before the deluge , have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum . But unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot ...
... measure , and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois . Such a book might , before the deluge , have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum . But unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot ...
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... measures the time during which the House of Austria held decided superiority and aspired to universal dominion . In the year in which Burleigh was born , Charles the Fifth obtained the imperial crown . In the year in which Burleigh died ...
... measures the time during which the House of Austria held decided superiority and aspired to universal dominion . In the year in which Burleigh was born , Charles the Fifth obtained the imperial crown . In the year in which Burleigh died ...
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... measure the defects of the worst representative system . A people whose education and habits are such , that , in every quarter of the world , they rise above the mass of those with whom they mix , as surely as oil rises to the top of ...
... measure the defects of the worst representative system . A people whose education and habits are such , that , in every quarter of the world , they rise above the mass of those with whom they mix , as surely as oil rises to the top of ...
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... measures which the people really felt to be oppressive , it was soon compelled to change its course . When Henry the Eighth attempted to raise a forced loan of unusual amount by proceedings of unusual rigour , the opposition which he ...
... measures which the people really felt to be oppressive , it was soon compelled to change its course . When Henry the Eighth attempted to raise a forced loan of unusual amount by proceedings of unusual rigour , the opposition which he ...
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... measures which Elizabeth had adopted , but by looking at the great general principles of her government , that those ... measure which seemed likely to alienate the great mass of the people . She gained more honour and more love by the ...
... measures which Elizabeth had adopted , but by looking at the great general principles of her government , that those ... measure which seemed likely to alienate the great mass of the people . She gained more honour and more love by the ...
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