Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination , the large manuscript proved to be the long lost Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity , which , according to Wood and Toland , Milton ...
... whole was wrapped up in an envelope , superscribed To Mr. Skinner , Merchant . On examination , the large manuscript proved to be the long lost Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity , which , according to Wood and Toland , Milton ...
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... whole upon himself , and sets the images in so clear a light , that it is impossible to be blind to them . The works of Milton cannot be comprehended or en- joyed , unless the mind of the reader co - operate with that of the writer . He ...
... whole upon himself , and sets the images in so clear a light , that it is impossible to be blind to them . The works of Milton cannot be comprehended or en- joyed , unless the mind of the reader co - operate with that of the writer . He ...
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... whole frame of society . The army rose against the parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in their eagerness to be revenged on the ...
... whole frame of society . The army rose against the parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in their eagerness to be revenged on the ...
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... whole man seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of incongruous qualities , selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevolence , craft and simplicity , abject villany and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a veteran ...
... whole man seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of incongruous qualities , selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevolence , craft and simplicity , abject villany and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a veteran ...
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... whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state of so- ciety which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different ...
... whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state of so- ciety which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different ...
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