Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... WILLIAM PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM ( Jan. 1834 ) 144 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH ( July 1835 ) 197 LORD BACON ( July 1837 ) - 275 SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE ( Oct. 1838 ) 422 681 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
... WILLIAM PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM ( Jan. 1834 ) 144 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH ( July 1835 ) 197 LORD BACON ( July 1837 ) - 275 SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE ( Oct. 1838 ) 422 681 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
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... Lord Burleigh , Secretary of State in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth , and Lord High Treasurer of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth . Containing an Historical View of the Times in which he lived , and of the many eminent and ...
... Lord Burleigh , Secretary of State in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth , and Lord High Treasurer of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth . Containing an Historical View of the Times in which he lived , and of the many eminent and ...
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... Lord Burleigh . " We should have thought this not only an excuse , but a complete vindication , if Cecil had been an Adiaphorist for the benefit of others as well as for his own . If the popish rites were matters of so little moment ...
... Lord Burleigh . " We should have thought this not only an excuse , but a complete vindication , if Cecil had been an Adiaphorist for the benefit of others as well as for his own . If the popish rites were matters of so little moment ...
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... LORD MAHON . 8vo . London : 1832 . THE days when Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by a Person of Honour , and Romances of M. Scuderi , done into English by a Person of Quality , were at- tractive to readers and profitable to booksellers ...
... LORD MAHON . 8vo . London : 1832 . THE days when Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by a Person of Honour , and Romances of M. Scuderi , done into English by a Person of Quality , were at- tractive to readers and profitable to booksellers ...
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... Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflections in a style too sententious and ora- cular . We will give one instance : " Strange as it seems , experience shows that we usually feel far more animosity against those ...
... Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflections in a style too sententious and ora- cular . We will give one instance : " Strange as it seems , experience shows that we usually feel far more animosity against those ...
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