Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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Page 39
... preferred a revolu- tion , a disputed succession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and intestine war , a standing army , and a national debt , to the rule , however restricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The.
... preferred a revolu- tion , a disputed succession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and intestine war , a standing army , and a national debt , to the rule , however restricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The.
Page 43
... army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their districts ; soldiers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession of the ...
... army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their districts ; soldiers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession of the ...
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... army encamped on the Rhine or the Xeres . It is said that , when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to indulge without restraint in such a rare and expensive luxury , nothing is to be seen but intoxication . Soon ...
... army encamped on the Rhine or the Xeres . It is said that , when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to indulge without restraint in such a rare and expensive luxury , nothing is to be seen but intoxication . Soon ...
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... army in which a king is known to be posted is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remem- bered , was put to death by men who had been ex- asperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had ...
... army in which a king is known to be posted is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remem- bered , was put to death by men who had been ex- asperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had ...
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... army for not yielding to the popular opinion ; but we cannot censure Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling which would have restrained us from committing the act would have led us , after it had been committed ...
... army for not yielding to the popular opinion ; but we cannot censure Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling which would have restrained us from committing the act would have led us , after it had been committed ...
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