Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... England . Yet in spite of her knowledge she believes ; she weeps ; she trembles ; she dares not go into a dark room lest she should feel the teeth of the monster at her throat . Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated ...
... England . Yet in spite of her knowledge she believes ; she weeps ; she trembles ; she dares not go into a dark room lest she should feel the teeth of the monster at her throat . Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncultivated ...
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... in spite of them , they feel , with their prototype , that ' Their labour must be to pervert that end , And out of good still to find means of evil . ' PRINCIPLES OF THE REVOLUTION 37 To the blessings which England 36 MILTON.
... in spite of them , they feel , with their prototype , that ' Their labour must be to pervert that end , And out of good still to find means of evil . ' PRINCIPLES OF THE REVOLUTION 37 To the blessings which England 36 MILTON.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. PRINCIPLES OF THE REVOLUTION 37 To the blessings which England has derived from the Revolution these people are utterly insensible . The expulsion of a tyrant , the solemn recognition of popular rights ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. PRINCIPLES OF THE REVOLUTION 37 To the blessings which England has derived from the Revolution these people are utterly insensible . The expulsion of a tyrant , the solemn recognition of popular rights ...
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... England ? No person can answer in the negative , unless he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his opponents , but to the narratives of the warmest Royalists , and to the con- fessions of the ...
... England ? No person can answer in the negative , unless he refuses credit , not merely to all the accusations brought against Charles by his opponents , but to the narratives of the warmest Royalists , and to the con- fessions of the ...
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... England claim for those who lie beneath them . A good father ! A good husband ! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of persecu- tion , tyranny , and falsehood ! We charge him with having broken his coronation oath ; and we are told ...
... England claim for those who lie beneath them . A good father ! A good husband ! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of persecu- tion , tyranny , and falsehood ! We charge him with having broken his coronation oath ; and we are told ...
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