Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... political opinions with his illustrious friend . It is therefore probable , as Mr. Lemon conjectures , that he may have fallen under the suspicions of the VOL . I. В government during that persecution of the Whigs which followed the.
... political opinions with his illustrious friend . It is therefore probable , as Mr. Lemon conjectures , that he may have fallen under the suspicions of the VOL . I. В government during that persecution of the Whigs which followed the.
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... Political Economy could teach Montague or Walpole many lessons in finance . Any intelligent man may now , by resolutely applying himself for a few years to mathematics , learn more than the great Newton knew after half a century of ...
... Political Economy could teach Montague or Walpole many lessons in finance . Any intelligent man may now , by resolutely applying himself for a few years to mathematics , learn more than the great Newton knew after half a century of ...
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... political world was at that time divided . We must premise , that our observations are intended to apply only to ... politicians , who transferred their support to every government as it rose , who kissed the hand of the King in 1640 ...
... political world was at that time divided . We must premise , that our observations are intended to apply only to ... politicians , who transferred their support to every government as it rose , who kissed the hand of the King in 1640 ...
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... political question . It was not for a treacherous king or an intolerant church that they fought , but for the old banner which had waved in so many battles over the heads of their fathers , and for the altars at which they had received ...
... political question . It was not for a treacherous king or an intolerant church that they fought , but for the old banner which had waved in so many battles over the heads of their fathers , and for the altars at which they had received ...
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... 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 attacked the prevailing systems of education . His ...
... 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 attacked the prevailing systems of education . His ...
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