Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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... opinion generally entertained by judicious readers of history concerning his hero . Lord Burleigh can hardly be called a great man . He was not one of those whose genius and energy change the fate of empires . He was by nature and habit ...
... opinion generally entertained by judicious readers of history concerning his hero . Lord Burleigh can hardly be called a great man . He was not one of those whose genius and energy change the fate of empires . He was by nature and habit ...
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... opinion for which he would risk nothing himself , he , in the day of his power , took away with- out scruple the lives of others . One of the excuses suggested in these Memoirs for his conforming , during the reign of Mary , to the ...
... opinion for which he would risk nothing himself , he , in the day of his power , took away with- out scruple the lives of others . One of the excuses suggested in these Memoirs for his conforming , during the reign of Mary , to the ...
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... opinion , carried the freedom of debate too far . She assumed the power of legislating by means of proclamations . She imprisoned her sub- jects without bringing them to a legal trial . Torture was often employed , in defiance of the ...
... opinion , carried the freedom of debate too far . She assumed the power of legislating by means of proclamations . She imprisoned her sub- jects without bringing them to a legal trial . Torture was often employed , in defiance of the ...
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... opinion that the Catholics were one half of the nation in the middle of the reign of Elizabeth . Rushton says that , when Elizabeth came to the throne , the Catholics were two thirds of the nation , and the Pro- testants only one third ...
... opinion that the Catholics were one half of the nation in the middle of the reign of Elizabeth . Rushton says that , when Elizabeth came to the throne , the Catholics were two thirds of the nation , and the Pro- testants only one third ...
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... opinions and feelings , resigned itself implicitly to the guidance of the government , and lent to the sovereign for the ... opinion as to the matters in dispute between the churches . They were in a situation resembling that of those ...
... opinions and feelings , resigned itself implicitly to the guidance of the government , and lent to the sovereign for the ... opinion as to the matters in dispute between the churches . They were in a situation resembling that of those ...
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