Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 |
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... brought me to ; and , after long mu- sing , I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give me light ; and as if the very stones in the street , and tiles upon the houses , did band ...
... brought me to ; and , after long mu- sing , I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give me light ; and as if the very stones in the street , and tiles upon the houses , did band ...
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... brought to jus- tice that illustrious philosopher whose memory genius has half redeemed from the infamy due to servility , to ingratitude , and to corruption . After redressing internal grievances , the Commons pro- ceeded to take into ...
... brought to jus- tice that illustrious philosopher whose memory genius has half redeemed from the infamy due to servility , to ingratitude , and to corruption . After redressing internal grievances , the Commons pro- ceeded to take into ...
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... brought on by the policy of his successor . Charles bore no resem- blance to his father . He was not a driveller , or a pedant , or a buffoon , or a coward . It would be absurd to deny that he was a scholar and a gentleman , a man of ...
... brought on by the policy of his successor . Charles bore no resem- blance to his father . He was not a driveller , or a pedant , or a buffoon , or a coward . It would be absurd to deny that he was a scholar and a gentleman , a man of ...
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... brought up ; but he persisted in his refusal , and was sent to a place of confinement in Hampshire . The government went on , oppressing at home , and blun- dering in all its measures abroad . A war was foolishly un- dertaken against ...
... brought up ; but he persisted in his refusal , and was sent to a place of confinement in Hampshire . The government went on , oppressing at home , and blun- dering in all its measures abroad . A war was foolishly un- dertaken against ...
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... brought no opinion of his own with him , but a desire of information and instruction . Yet he had so subtle a way of interrogating , and , under cover of doubts , insinuating his objections , that he infused his own opinions into those ...
... brought no opinion of his own with him , but a desire of information and instruction . Yet he had so subtle a way of interrogating , and , under cover of doubts , insinuating his objections , that he infused his own opinions into those ...
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