Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... enemies , and for crushing domestic treason . There was not a ward in the city , there was not a hundred in any shire in England , which could not have overpowered the handful of armed men who composed her household . If a hostile ...
... enemies , and for crushing domestic treason . There was not a ward in the city , there was not a hundred in any shire in England , which could not have overpowered the handful of armed men who composed her household . If a hostile ...
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... enemies and rivals . His narrative is very perspicuous , and is also entitled to the praise , seldom , we grieve to say , deserved by modern writers , of being very concise . It must be admitted , however , that , with many of the best ...
... enemies and rivals . His narrative is very perspicuous , and is also entitled to the praise , seldom , we grieve to say , deserved by modern writers , of being very concise . It must be admitted , however , that , with many of the best ...
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... enemy to all the west of England , as well as all the south parts , as Sussex , Hampshire , and the Isle of Wight . Yea , by means of his interest in St. Maloes , a port full of shipping for the war , he is a dangerous neigh- bour to ...
... enemy to all the west of England , as well as all the south parts , as Sussex , Hampshire , and the Isle of Wight . Yea , by means of his interest in St. Maloes , a port full of shipping for the war , he is a dangerous neigh- bour to ...
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... enemy , the Spanish adventurers , sprung from the common people , dis- played a fertility of resource , and a talent for nego- tiation and command , to which history scarcely affords a parallel . The Castilian of those times was to the ...
... enemy , the Spanish adventurers , sprung from the common people , dis- played a fertility of resource , and a talent for nego- tiation and command , to which history scarcely affords a parallel . The Castilian of those times was to the ...
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... enemy Lewis Baboon , had come with quadrants , poles , and inkhorns , to survey his estate , and to draw his will for him . Lord Mahon speaks of the arrangement with grave severity . He calls it , " an iniquitous compact , concluded ...
... enemy Lewis Baboon , had come with quadrants , poles , and inkhorns , to survey his estate , and to draw his will for him . Lord Mahon speaks of the arrangement with grave severity . He calls it , " an iniquitous compact , concluded ...
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