Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 40
... Queen Elizabeth . Indeed the argument which we are considering , seems to us to be founded on an entire mistake . There are branches of knowledge with respect to which the law of the human mind is progress . In mathematics , when once a ...
... Queen Elizabeth . Indeed the argument which we are considering , seems to us to be founded on an entire mistake . There are branches of knowledge with respect to which the law of the human mind is progress . In mathematics , when once a ...
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... queens , now peopled his solitude with saints and angels . The Holy Virgin descended to commune with him . He saw the Saviour face to face with the eye of flesh . Even those mysteries of religion which are the hardest trial of faith ...
... queens , now peopled his solitude with saints and angels . The Holy Virgin descended to commune with him . He saw the Saviour face to face with the eye of flesh . Even those mysteries of religion which are the hardest trial of faith ...
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... Queen's isles of Jersey and Guernsey , ancient possessions of this Crown , and never conquered in the greatest wars with France . " The ascendency which Spain then had in Europe was , in one sense , well deserved . It was an ascendency ...
... Queen's isles of Jersey and Guernsey , ancient possessions of this Crown , and never conquered in the greatest wars with France . " The ascendency which Spain then had in Europe was , in one sense , well deserved . It was an ascendency ...
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... 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 most dexterous politicians of that age , Cardinal Porto Carrero , Arch- bishop of ...
... 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 most dexterous politicians of that age , Cardinal Porto Carrero , Arch- bishop of ...
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... Queen harangued them . The priests exhibited the host . All was in vain . It was necessary to awaken the King from his uneasy sleep , and to carry him to the balcony . There a solemn promise was given that the unpopular advisers of the ...
... Queen harangued them . The priests exhibited the host . All was in vain . It was necessary to awaken the King from his uneasy sleep , and to carry him to the balcony . There a solemn promise was given that the unpopular advisers of the ...
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