Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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... minister , skilled in the details of business , competent to advise , but not aspiring to command . And such a minister she found in Burleigh . No arts could shake the 8 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
... minister , skilled in the details of business , competent to advise , but not aspiring to command . And such a minister she found in Burleigh . No arts could shake the 8 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
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... minister , by birth only a plain Lincolnshire esquire , took his ease , while the haughty heirs of the Fitzalans and the De Veres humbled themselves to the dust around him . At length having survived all his early coadjutors , and ...
... minister , by birth only a plain Lincolnshire esquire , took his ease , while the haughty heirs of the Fitzalans and the De Veres humbled themselves to the dust around him . At length having survived all his early coadjutors , and ...
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... ministers and courtiers , this the nation granted to the Tudors . But the condition on which they were suffered to be the tyrants of White- hall was that they should be the mild and paternal sovereigns of England . They were under the ...
... ministers and courtiers , this the nation granted to the Tudors . But the condition on which they were suffered to be the tyrants of White- hall was that they should be the mild and paternal sovereigns of England . They were under the ...
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... King . On the side of the Imperial family was the Queen , herself a Princess of that family . With her were allied the confessor of the King , and most of the ministers . On the other side were two of the 52 LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
... King . On the side of the Imperial family was the Queen , herself a Princess of that family . With her were allied the confessor of the King , and most of the ministers . On the other side were two of the 52 LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. ministers . On the other side were two of the most dexterous politicians of that age , Cardinal Porto Carrero , Archbishop of Toledo , and Harcourt , the ambassador of Louis . Harcourt was a noble specimen of ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. ministers . On the other side were two of the most dexterous politicians of that age , Cardinal Porto Carrero , Archbishop of Toledo , and Harcourt , the ambassador of Louis . Harcourt was a noble specimen of ...
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