Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... employ in supporting a paradox . the rules of historical perspective , he has not the faintest notion . There is neither foreground nor Of background in his delineation . The wars of Charles the 2 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
... employ in supporting a paradox . the rules of historical perspective , he has not the faintest notion . There is neither foreground nor Of background in his delineation . The wars of Charles the 2 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
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... employed in a mission scarcely consistent with the character of a zealous Protestant . He was sent to escort the Papal Legate , Cardinal Pole , from Brussels to London . That great body of moderate persons who cared more for the quiet ...
... employed in a mission scarcely consistent with the character of a zealous Protestant . He was sent to escort the Papal Legate , Cardinal Pole , from Brussels to London . That great body of moderate persons who cared more for the quiet ...
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... employed , in defiance of the laws of England , for the purpose of extorting confessions from those who were shut up in her dungeons . The authority of the Star - Chamber and of the Ecclesias- tical Commission was at its highest point ...
... employed , in defiance of the laws of England , for the purpose of extorting confessions from those who were shut up in her dungeons . The authority of the Star - Chamber and of the Ecclesias- tical Commission was at its highest point ...
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... employed shall be such as convey to the reader the meaning of the writer . Now an Abbot is the head of a religious house ; an Abbé is quite a different sort of person . It is better undoubtedly to use an English word than a French word ...
... employed shall be such as convey to the reader the meaning of the writer . Now an Abbot is the head of a religious house ; an Abbé is quite a different sort of person . It is better undoubtedly to use an English word than a French word ...
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... employed by the House of Austria to crush the lingering public spirit of Italy . Lope sailed in the Armada ; Cervantes was wounded at Lepanto . It is curious to consider with how much awe our ancestors in those times regarded a Spaniard ...
... employed by the House of Austria to crush the lingering public spirit of Italy . Lope sailed in the Armada ; Cervantes was wounded at Lepanto . It is curious to consider with how much awe our ancestors in those times regarded a Spaniard ...
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