Critical and Historical Essays, 2: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernh. Tauchnitz Im., 1850 - 393 pages |
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... English , and , for the most part , in an excellent spirit . Mr. Southey propounds , we need not say , many opinions from which we altogether dissent ; and his attempts to excuse the odious persecution to which Bunyan was subjected have ...
... English , and , for the most part , in an excellent spirit . Mr. Southey propounds , we need not say , many opinions from which we altogether dissent ; and his attempts to excuse the odious persecution to which Bunyan was subjected have ...
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... English language . The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people . There is not an ex- pression , if we except a few technical terms of theology , which would puzzle the rudest peasant . We have observed several pages which do ...
... English language . The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people . There is not an ex- pression , if we except a few technical terms of theology , which would puzzle the rudest peasant . We have observed several pages which do ...
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... English commoners whose plain addition of Mister has , to our ears , a more majestic sound than the proudest of the feudal titles . In this hope we have been disappointed ; but assuredly not from any want of zeal or diligence on the ...
... English commoners whose plain addition of Mister has , to our ears , a more majestic sound than the proudest of the feudal titles . In this hope we have been disappointed ; but assuredly not from any want of zeal or diligence on the ...
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... English law . In 1619 he married Elizabeth Symeon , a lady to whom he appears to have been fondly attached . In the following year he was returned to Parliament by a borough which has in our time obtained a miserable celebrity , the ...
... English law . In 1619 he married Elizabeth Symeon , a lady to whom he appears to have been fondly attached . In the following year he was returned to Parliament by a borough which has in our time obtained a miserable celebrity , the ...
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... English had enjoyed a far larger share of liberty than had fallen to the lot of any neighbouring people . How it chanced that a country conquered and en- slaved by invaders , a country of which the soil had been por- tioned out among ...
... English had enjoyed a far larger share of liberty than had fallen to the lot of any neighbouring people . How it chanced that a country conquered and en- slaved by invaders , a country of which the soil had been por- tioned out among ...
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