Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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Page 11
... turned the author of Utopia into a per- secutor . In both cases , the convulsion which had overthrown deeply seated errors , shook all the princi- ples on which society rests to their very foundations . The minds of men were unsettled ...
... turned the author of Utopia into a per- secutor . In both cases , the convulsion which had overthrown deeply seated errors , shook all the princi- ples on which society rests to their very foundations . The minds of men were unsettled ...
Page 13
... turned a beautiful and fruitful garden into a desert , has again turned the desert into a still more beautiful and fruit- ful garden . The second great eruption is not yet over . The marks of its ravages are still all around us . The ...
... turned a beautiful and fruitful garden into a desert , has again turned the desert into a still more beautiful and fruit- ful garden . The second great eruption is not yet over . The marks of its ravages are still all around us . The ...
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... turned the attention of the nation from domestic reform . The Council of Constance removed some of the grossest of those scandals which had deprived the Church of the public respect . The authority of that venerable synod propped up the ...
... turned the attention of the nation from domestic reform . The Council of Constance removed some of the grossest of those scandals which had deprived the Church of the public respect . The authority of that venerable synod propped up the ...
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... turned over from one master to another . That England and Holland had a right to interfere is plain . The question of the Spanish succession was not an internal question , but an European question . And this Lord Mahon admits . He ...
... turned over from one master to another . That England and Holland had a right to interfere is plain . The question of the Spanish succession was not an internal question , but an European question . And this Lord Mahon admits . He ...
Page 52
... turning the whole wrath of Charles and of the Spanish people from himself , and in directing it against the two maritime powers . Those powers had now no agent at Madrid . Their perfidious ally was at liberty to carry on his intrigues ...
... turning the whole wrath of Charles and of the Spanish people from himself , and in directing it against the two maritime powers . Those powers had now no agent at Madrid . Their perfidious ally was at liberty to carry on his intrigues ...
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