Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Page 35
... party who has related the events of that reign , the conduct of Charles , from his accession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression and treachery . Let those who applaud the Revolution , and ...
... party who has related the events of that reign , the conduct of Charles , from his accession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression and treachery . Let those who applaud the Revolution , and ...
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... party , by no means numerous , but dis- tinguished by learning and ability , which acted with them on very different principles . We speak of those whom Cromwell was accustomed to call the Heathens , men who were , in the phraseology of ...
... party , by no means numerous , but dis- tinguished by learning and ability , which acted with them on very different principles . We speak of those whom Cromwell was accustomed to call the Heathens , men who were , in the phraseology of ...
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... party were combined in harmonious union . From the Parliament and from the Court , from the conventicle and from the Gothic cloister , from the gloomy and sepulchral circles of the Roundheads , and from the Christmas revel of the ...
... party were combined in harmonious union . From the Parliament and from the Court , from the conventicle and from the Gothic cloister , from the gloomy and sepulchral circles of the Roundheads , and from the Christmas revel of the ...
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... party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing the torch of truth into those dark and infected recesses in which no light has ever shone . But it was the choice and the pleasure of Milton to penetrate the noisome ...
... party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing the torch of truth into those dark and infected recesses in which no light has ever shone . But it was the choice and the pleasure of Milton to penetrate the noisome ...
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... party censured the Secretary for dedicating The Prince to a patron who bore the unpopular name of Medici . But to those immoral doctrines which have since called forth such severe reprehensions no exception appears to have been taken ...
... party censured the Secretary for dedicating The Prince to a patron who bore the unpopular name of Medici . But to those immoral doctrines which have since called forth such severe reprehensions no exception appears to have been taken ...
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