Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Page 42
... defended it , that nothing can be more absurd than the imputations which , for the last hundred and sixty years , it has been the fashion to cast upon the Regicides . We have , throughout , abstained from appealing to first principles ...
... defended it , that nothing can be more absurd than the imputations which , for the last hundred and sixty years , it has been the fashion to cast upon the Regicides . We have , throughout , abstained from appealing to first principles ...
Page 44
... defend it against the ravings of servility and super- stition . For the sake of public liberty , we wish that the thing had not been done , while the people dis- approved of it . But , for the sake of public liberty , we should also ...
... defend it against the ravings of servility and super- stition . For the sake of public liberty , we wish that the thing had not been done , while the people dis- approved of it . But , for the sake of public liberty , we should also ...
Page 49
... defend themselves ; and the public would not take them under its protection . They were therefore abandoned , without reserve , to the tender mercies of the satirists and dramatists . The ostentatious simplicity of their dress , their ...
... defend themselves ; and the public would not take them under its protection . They were therefore abandoned , without reserve , to the tender mercies of the satirists and dramatists . The ostentatious simplicity of their dress , their ...
Page 54
... defending without love , destroying without hatred . There was a freedom in their subserviency , a nobleness in their very degradation . The sentiment of individual in- dependence was strong within them . They were indeed misled , but ...
... defending without love , destroying without hatred . There was a freedom in their subserviency , a nobleness in their very degradation . The sentiment of individual in- dependence was strong within them . They were indeed misled , but ...
Page 58
... defending the popular parts of his religious and political creed . He took his own stand upon those which the great body of his countrymen reprobated as criminal , or derided as paradoxical . He stood up for divorce and regicide . He ...
... defending the popular parts of his religious and political creed . He took his own stand upon those which the great body of his countrymen reprobated as criminal , or derided as paradoxical . He stood up for divorce and regicide . He ...
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