Critical and Historical Essays, 2: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernh. Tauchnitz Im., 1850 - 393 pages |
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... HAMPDEN BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES LORD MAHON'S WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN 1 17 · 81 114 WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN 175 • THACKERAY'S HISTORY OF THE EARL OF CHATHAM 221 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION • 273 ...
... HAMPDEN BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES LORD MAHON'S WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN 1 17 · 81 114 WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN 175 • THACKERAY'S HISTORY OF THE EARL OF CHATHAM 221 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION • 273 ...
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... there were only two minds which pos- sessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree . One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost , the other the Pilgrim's Progress . JOHN HAMPDEN . ( DECEMBER , 1831. ) Some Memorials.
... there were only two minds which pos- sessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree . One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost , the other the Pilgrim's Progress . JOHN HAMPDEN . ( DECEMBER , 1831. ) Some Memorials.
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Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay. JOHN HAMPDEN . ( DECEMBER , 1831. ) Some Memorials of John Hampden , his Party , and his Times . NUGENT . 2 vols . 8vo . London : 1831 . By LORD We have read this book with ...
Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay. JOHN HAMPDEN . ( DECEMBER , 1831. ) Some Memorials of John Hampden , his Party , and his Times . NUGENT . 2 vols . 8vo . London : 1831 . By LORD We have read this book with ...
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... Hampden is surrounded by no obscurity . His history , more particularly from the year 1640 to his death , is the history of England . These Memoirs must be considered as Memoirs of the history of England ; and , as such , they well ...
... Hampden is surrounded by no obscurity . His history , more particularly from the year 1640 to his death , is the history of England . These Memoirs must be considered as Memoirs of the history of England ; and , as such , they well ...
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... Hampden afforded the slightest pretence for censure , he would have been assailed by the same blind malevolence which , in defiance of the clearest proofs , still continues to call Sir John Eliot an as- sassin . Had there been even any ...
... Hampden afforded the slightest pretence for censure , he would have been assailed by the same blind malevolence which , in defiance of the clearest proofs , still continues to call Sir John Eliot an as- sassin . Had there been even any ...
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