Critical and Historical Essays, 2: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernh. Tauchnitz Im., 1850 - 393 pages |
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... of a distant city appear before the traveller ; and soon he is in the midst of the innumerable multitudes of Vanity Fair . There are the jugglers and the apes , the shops and the puppet - shows . OF THE PILGRIM'S PROgress . 5.
... of a distant city appear before the traveller ; and soon he is in the midst of the innumerable multitudes of Vanity Fair . There are the jugglers and the apes , the shops and the puppet - shows . OF THE PILGRIM'S PROgress . 5.
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... soon told . He was the head of a family which had been settled in Buckinghamshire before the Conquest . Part of the estate which he inherited had been bestowed by Edward the Confessor on Baldwyn de Hampden , whose name seems to indicate ...
... soon told . He was the head of a family which had been settled in Buckinghamshire before the Conquest . Part of the estate which he inherited had been bestowed by Edward the Confessor on Baldwyn de Hampden , whose name seems to indicate ...
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... soon after his accession had been refractory . His second Parliament , called in the spring of 1614 , had been more refractory still . It had been dissolved after a session of two months ; and during six years the King had governed ...
... soon after his accession had been refractory . His second Parliament , called in the spring of 1614 , had been more refractory still . It had been dissolved after a session of two months ; and during six years the King had governed ...
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... soon as Charles had dismissed the Parliament , he threw several members of the House of Commons into prison . Ship- money was exacted more rigorously than ever ; and the Mayor and Sheriffs of London were prosecuted before the Star ...
... soon as Charles had dismissed the Parliament , he threw several members of the House of Commons into prison . Ship- money was exacted more rigorously than ever ; and the Mayor and Sheriffs of London were prosecuted before the Star ...
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... soon as they saw the enemy , ran away as English soldiers have never run either be- fore or since . It can scarcely be doubted that their flight was the effect , not of cowardice , but of disaffection . The four northern counties of ...
... soon as they saw the enemy , ran away as English soldiers have never run either be- fore or since . It can scarcely be doubted that their flight was the effect , not of cowardice , but of disaffection . The four northern counties of ...
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