Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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... never deserted his friends till it was very inconvenient to stand by them , was an excellent Protestant when it was not very advantageous to be a Papist , recom- mended a tolerant policy to his mistress as strongly as he could recommend ...
... never deserted his friends till it was very inconvenient to stand by them , was an excellent Protestant when it was not very advantageous to be a Papist , recom- mended a tolerant policy to his mistress as strongly as he could recommend ...
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... never abandoned the prospect of another revolution in favour of Pro- testantism . " In another place , the Doctor tells us , that Cecil went to mass " with no idolatrous inten- tion . " Nobody , we believe , ever accused him of ido ...
... never abandoned the prospect of another revolution in favour of Pro- testantism . " In another place , the Doctor tells us , that Cecil went to mass " with no idolatrous inten- tion . " Nobody , we believe , ever accused him of ido ...
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... never be lulled into carelessness , a temper which could never be irritated into rashness . The Papists could find no occasion against him . Yet he did not lose the esteem even of those sterner Protestants who had preferred exile to ...
... never be lulled into carelessness , a temper which could never be irritated into rashness . The Papists could find no occasion against him . Yet he did not lose the esteem even of those sterner Protestants who had preferred exile to ...
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... never suffer her to make her hereditary kingdom a fief of Castile . On these points she en- countered a steady resistance , and was compelled to give way . If she was able to establish the Catholic worship and to persecute those who ...
... never suffer her to make her hereditary kingdom a fief of Castile . On these points she en- countered a steady resistance , and was compelled to give way . If she was able to establish the Catholic worship and to persecute those who ...
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... never committing errors . If such a man as Charles the First had been in her place when the whole nation was crying out against the monopolies , he would have refused all redress . He would have dis- solved the Parliament , and ...
... never committing errors . If such a man as Charles the First had been in her place when the whole nation was crying out against the monopolies , he would have refused all redress . He would have dis- solved the Parliament , and ...
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