Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... soon became matters of life and death . Just at the very time at which Cecil attained the highest point of power and favour , an Act of Parliament was passed by which the penalties of high treason were de- nounced against persons who ...
... soon became matters of life and death . Just at the very time at which Cecil attained the highest point of power and favour , an Act of Parliament was passed by which the penalties of high treason were de- nounced against persons who ...
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... soon as they appeared , a few dark conspiracies in which only a small number of desperate men engaged , such were the utmost efforts made by these two parties to assert the most sacred of human rights , attacked by the most odious ...
... soon as they appeared , a few dark conspiracies in which only a small number of desperate men engaged , such were the utmost efforts made by these two parties to assert the most sacred of human rights , attacked by the most odious ...
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... soon compelled to change its course . When Henry the Eighth attempted to raise a forced loan of unusual amount by proceedings of unusual rigour , the opposition which he encountered was such as appalled even his stubborn and imperious ...
... soon compelled to change its course . When Henry the Eighth attempted to raise a forced loan of unusual amount by proceedings of unusual rigour , the opposition which he encountered was such as appalled even his stubborn and imperious ...
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... the country party in the House of Commons , then again murmuring one of his sweet love - songs too near the ears of her Highness's maids VOL . II . D of honour , and soon after poring over the Talmud BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . 33.
... the country party in the House of Commons , then again murmuring one of his sweet love - songs too near the ears of her Highness's maids VOL . II . D of honour , and soon after poring over the Talmud BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . 33.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. of honour , and soon after poring over the Talmud , or collating Polybius with Livy . We had intended also to say something concerning the literature of that splendid period , and especially ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. of honour , and soon after poring over the Talmud , or collating Polybius with Livy . We had intended also to say something concerning the literature of that splendid period , and especially ...
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