Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE 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 ...
... CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE 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 ...
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... civil war , indeed , has been more discussed , and is less understood , than any event in English history . The friends of liberty laboured under the disadvantage of which the lion in the fable complained so bitterly . Though they were ...
... civil war , indeed , has been more discussed , and is less understood , than any event in English history . The friends of liberty laboured under the disadvantage of which the lion in the fable complained so bitterly . Though they were ...
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... civil war ? The ship - money had been given up . The Star - Chamber had been abolished . Provision had been made for the frequent convocation and secure deliberation of parliaments . Why not pursue an end confessedly good by peaceable ...
... civil war ? The ship - money had been given up . The Star - Chamber had been abolished . Provision had been made for the frequent convocation and secure deliberation of parliaments . Why not pursue an end confessedly good by peaceable ...
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... civil war . They were the price of our liberty . Has the acquisition been worth the sacrifice ? It is the nature of the Devil of tyranny to tear and rend the body which he leaves . Are the miseries of continued possession less horrible ...
... civil war . They were the price of our liberty . Has the acquisition been worth the sacrifice ? It is the nature of the Devil of tyranny to tear and rend the body which he leaves . Are the miseries of continued possession less horrible ...
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... civil war . The heads of the church and state reaped only that which they had sown . The Govern- ment had prohibited free discussion : it had done its best to keep the people unacquainted with their duties and their rights . The ...
... civil war . The heads of the church and state reaped only that which they had sown . The Govern- ment had prohibited free discussion : it had done its best to keep the people unacquainted with their duties and their rights . The ...
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