Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... JEWS . January 1831 MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . June 1831 . EDITOR'S APPENDIX Glossary of Allusions INDEX VOL . I. 38 X 1084 A 309 326 371 381 389 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW MILTON.
... JEWS . January 1831 MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . June 1831 . EDITOR'S APPENDIX Glossary of Allusions INDEX VOL . I. 38 X 1084 A 309 326 371 381 389 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW MILTON.
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... Lords and Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the ...
... Lords and Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the ...
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... which had at that time been known in the world . He reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise even from Lord Clarendon . VOL . I. D For himself he demanded indeed the first place in the.
... which had at that time been known in the world . He reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise even from Lord Clarendon . VOL . I. D For himself he demanded indeed the first place in the.
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... translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to the custom of strangling their brothers . Lord Lyttelton charges the poor Florentine with the manifold treasons of the house 67 MACHIAVELLI March 1827.
... translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to the custom of strangling their brothers . Lord Lyttelton charges the poor Florentine with the manifold treasons of the house 67 MACHIAVELLI March 1827.
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... Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , in- tended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious men . It would be easy to show that neither of these solutions is consistent with many ...
... Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , in- tended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious men . It would be easy to show that neither of these solutions is consistent with many ...
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