Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... political feeling which took place in almost every part of the civilised world during the eighteenth century , and which obtained in France its most terrible and signal triumph . Each of these memorable events may be described as a ...
... political feeling which took place in almost every part of the civilised world during the eighteenth century , and which obtained in France its most terrible and signal triumph . Each of these memorable events may be described as a ...
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... political agitation of the eighteenth century sprang the Jacobins . From the religious agitation of the sixteenth century sprang the Anabaptists . The partisans of Robespierre robbed and murdered in the name of fraternity and equality ...
... political agitation of the eighteenth century sprang the Jacobins . From the religious agitation of the sixteenth century sprang the Anabaptists . The partisans of Robespierre robbed and murdered in the name of fraternity and equality ...
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... political and religious discussion . The number of presses was at one time limited . No man could print without a license ; and every work had to undergo the scrutiny of the Primate or the Bishop of London . Persons whose writings were ...
... political and religious discussion . The number of presses was at one time limited . No man could print without a license ; and every work had to undergo the scrutiny of the Primate or the Bishop of London . Persons whose writings were ...
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... politics to confound means with ends . Constitutions , charters , petitions of right , declarations of right , representative assemblies , elec- toral colleges , are not good government ; nor do they , even when most elaborately ...
... politics to confound means with ends . Constitutions , charters , petitions of right , declarations of right , representative assemblies , elec- toral colleges , are not good government ; nor do they , even when most elaborately ...
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... political opinions are by no means aristocratical , we always feel kindly disposed towards noble authors . Industry and a taste for intellectual pleasures are peculiarly respect- able in those who can afford to be idle and who have ...
... political opinions are by no means aristocratical , we always feel kindly disposed towards noble authors . Industry and a taste for intellectual pleasures are peculiarly respect- able in those who can afford to be idle and who have ...
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