Critical and Historical Essays, 2: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernh. Tauchnitz Im., 1850 - 393 pages |
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... interest . Other allegories only amuse the fancy . The allegory of Bunyan has been read by many thousands with tears . There are some good allegories in Johnson's works , and some of still higher merit by Addison . In these per ...
... interest . Other allegories only amuse the fancy . The allegory of Bunyan has been read by many thousands with tears . There are some good allegories in Johnson's works , and some of still higher merit by Addison . In these per ...
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... interest of the concrete . In the works of many celebrated authors , men are mere personifications . We have not a jealous man , but jealousy , not a traitor , but perfidy , not a patriot , but came men . patriotism . The mind of Bunyan ...
... interest of the concrete . In the works of many celebrated authors , men are mere personifications . We have not a jealous man , but jealousy , not a traitor , but perfidy , not a patriot , but came men . patriotism . The mind of Bunyan ...
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... interests of his constituents . A great and terrible crisis came . A direct attack was made by an arbitrary government on a sacred right of Englishmen , on a right which was the chief security for all their other rights . The nation ...
... interests of his constituents . A great and terrible crisis came . A direct attack was made by an arbitrary government on a sacred right of Englishmen , on a right which was the chief security for all their other rights . The nation ...
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... interest all over the Con- tinent . All the extraordinary modes by which James could venture to raise money had been tried . His necessities were greater than ever ; and he was compelled to summon the Parliament in which Hampden first ...
... interest all over the Con- tinent . All the extraordinary modes by which James could venture to raise money had been tried . His necessities were greater than ever ; and he was compelled to summon the Parliament in which Hampden first ...
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... interests of his own country . It was in a great measure owing to his exertions that Wendover and some other boroughs on which the popular party could depend recovered the elective franchise , in spite of the opposition of the Court ...
... interests of his own country . It was in a great measure owing to his exertions that Wendover and some other boroughs on which the popular party could depend recovered the elective franchise , in spite of the opposition of the Court ...
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