Critical and Historical Essays, 2: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernh. Tauchnitz Im., 1850 - 393 pages |
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... liberty . Fana- ticism , engendered by persecution , and destined to engender persecution in turn , spread rapidly through society . Even the strongest and most commanding minds were not proof against this strange taint . Any time might ...
... liberty . Fana- ticism , engendered by persecution , and destined to engender persecution in turn , spread rapidly through society . Even the strongest and most commanding minds were not proof against this strange taint . Any time might ...
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... 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 foreign adventurers , and of which the laws ...
... 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 foreign adventurers , and of which the laws ...
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... liberty of private judgment at the pleasure of rulers who could vindicate their own proceedings only by asserting the liberty of private judgment , these things could not long be borne . Those who had pulled down the crucifix could not ...
... liberty of private judgment at the pleasure of rulers who could vindicate their own proceedings only by asserting the liberty of private judgment , these things could not long be borne . Those who had pulled down the crucifix could not ...
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... liberty whom Britain has produced , he was at once the most harmless and the most provoking . His office resembled that of the man who , in a Spanish bull - fight , goads the torpid savage to fury , by shaking a red rag in the air , and ...
... liberty whom Britain has produced , he was at once the most harmless and the most provoking . His office resembled that of the man who , in a Spanish bull - fight , goads the torpid savage to fury , by shaking a red rag in the air , and ...
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... liberty had grown strong , and had become equal to a great contest . The contest was 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 ...
... liberty had grown strong , and had become equal to a great contest . The contest was 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 ...
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