Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... once to greatness . He was sworn in Privy - councillor and Secretary of State to the new sovereign before he left her prison of Hatfield ; and he continued to serve her during forty years , without intermission , in the highest ...
... once to greatness . He was sworn in Privy - councillor and Secretary of State to the new sovereign before he left her prison of Hatfield ; and he continued to serve her during forty years , without intermission , in the highest ...
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... once devastated , and , after having turned a beautiful and fruitful garden into a desert , has again turned the desert into a still more beautiful and fruitful garden . The second great eruption is not yet over . The marks of its ...
... once devastated , and , after having turned a beautiful and fruitful garden into a desert , has again turned the desert into a still more beautiful and fruitful garden . The second great eruption is not yet over . The marks of its ...
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... the massacres of Piedmont and the Autos de fe of Spain . But what can be said in defence of a ruler who is at once indifferent and intolerant ? If the great Queen , whose memory is still held BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . 29.
... the massacres of Piedmont and the Autos de fe of Spain . But what can be said in defence of a ruler who is at once indifferent and intolerant ? If the great Queen , whose memory is still held BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . 29.
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... once given , they were never withdrawn . She gave them too with a frankness , an effusion of heart , a princely dignity , a motherly tenderness , which en- hanced their value . They were received by the sturdy country gentlemen who had ...
... once given , they were never withdrawn . She gave them too with a frankness , an effusion of heart , a princely dignity , a motherly tenderness , which en- hanced their value . They were received by the sturdy country gentlemen who had ...
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... once enjoyed by lords are as obsolete as their right to kill the King's deer on their way to Parliament , or as their old remedy of scandalum magnatum . Yet we must acknowledge that , though our political opinions are by no means ...
... once enjoyed by lords are as obsolete as their right to kill the King's deer on their way to Parliament , or as their old remedy of scandalum magnatum . Yet we must acknowledge that , though our political opinions are by no means ...
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