Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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... spirit , it would have been scarcely possible for him to keep his power or even his head . There was not room in one govern- ment for an Elizabeth and a Richelieu . What the haughty daughter of Henry needed , was a moderate , cautious ...
... spirit , it would have been scarcely possible for him to keep his power or even his head . There was not room in one govern- ment for an Elizabeth and a Richelieu . What the haughty daughter of Henry needed , was a moderate , cautious ...
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... spirit of innovation was at first encouraged by the class to which it was likely to be most prejudicial . It was under the patronage of Frederic , of Catherine , of Joseph , and of the grandees of France , that the philosophy which ...
... spirit of innovation was at first encouraged by the class to which it was likely to be most prejudicial . It was under the patronage of Frederic , of Catherine , of Joseph , and of the grandees of France , that the philosophy which ...
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... spirits zeal soured into malignity , or foamed into madness . From the political agitation of the eighteenth century sprang the Jacobins . From the religious agitation of the sixteenth century sprang the Anabaptists . The partisans of ...
... spirits zeal soured into malignity , or foamed into madness . From the political agitation of the eighteenth century sprang the Jacobins . From the religious agitation of the sixteenth century sprang the Anabaptists . The partisans of ...
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... spirit seemed to justify and consecrate acts which , in any other times , would have been considered as the foulest of treasons . The French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris . The Irish ...
... spirit seemed to justify and consecrate acts which , in any other times , would have been considered as the foulest of treasons . The French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris . The Irish ...
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... spirit of Rochelle , or for the Catholic doctrines with the spirit of Paris . Neither sect in England formed a League . Neither sect extorted a recantation from the sovereign . Neither sect could obtain from an adverse sovereign even a ...
... spirit of Rochelle , or for the Catholic doctrines with the spirit of Paris . Neither sect in England formed a League . Neither sect extorted a recantation from the sovereign . Neither sect could obtain from an adverse sovereign even a ...
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