Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... respect differs from that of Dante , as the adventures of Amadis differ from those of Gulliver . The author of Amadis would have made his book ridiculous if he had introduced those minute particulars which give such a charm to the work ...
... respect differs from that of Dante , as the adventures of Amadis differ from those of Gulliver . The author of Amadis would have made his book ridiculous if he had introduced those minute particulars which give such a charm to the work ...
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... respect- able . Hume , from whose fascinating narrative the great mass of the reading public are still contented to take their opinions , hated religion so much that he hated liberty for having been allied with religion , and has ...
... respect- able . Hume , from whose fascinating narrative the great mass of the reading public are still contented to take their opinions , hated religion so much that he hated liberty for having been allied with religion , and has ...
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... respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Papist ; we say in name and pro- fession , because both Charles himself ...
... respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Papist ; we say in name and pro- fession , because both Charles himself ...
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... respect to the Petition of Right . The Lords and Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The ...
... respect to the Petition of Right . The Lords and Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The ...
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... respect for They had far more both of profound and of polite learning than the Puritans . Their manners were more engaging , their tempers more amiable , their tastes more elegant , and their households more cheerful . Milton did not ...
... respect for They had far more both of profound and of polite learning than the Puritans . Their manners were more engaging , their tempers more amiable , their tastes more elegant , and their households more cheerful . Milton did not ...
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