Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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Page 51
... established , as set down in the Instrument of Government , and the Humble Petition and Advice , were excellent . His practice , it is true , too often departed from the theory of these institutions . But , had he lived a few years ...
... established , as set down in the Instrument of Government , and the Humble Petition and Advice , were excellent . His practice , it is true , too often departed from the theory of these institutions . But , had he lived a few years ...
Page 74
... established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms which carried terror into the palaces and camps of the proudest ...
... established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms which carried terror into the palaces and camps of the proudest ...
Page 75
... established . tions of the commercial machine were by many useful and beautiful inventions . whether any country of Europe , our own excepted , have at the present time reached so high a point of wealth and civilisation as some parts of ...
... established . tions of the commercial machine were by many useful and beautiful inventions . whether any country of Europe , our own excepted , have at the present time reached so high a point of wealth and civilisation as some parts of ...
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... established solely by the comparison of hands . Our suspicions are strengthened by the circumstance , that the same manuscript contained a description of the plague of 1527 , which has also , in consequence , been added to the works of ...
... established solely by the comparison of hands . Our suspicions are strengthened by the circumstance , that the same manuscript contained a description of the plague of 1527 , which has also , in consequence , been added to the works of ...
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... established by authentic testimony can be racked or chipped to suit his Procrustean hypothesis , he puts up with some monstrous fable about Siam , or Bantam , or Japan , told by writers compared with whom Lucian and Gulliver were ...
... established by authentic testimony can be racked or chipped to suit his Procrustean hypothesis , he puts up with some monstrous fable about Siam , or Bantam , or Japan , told by writers compared with whom Lucian and Gulliver were ...
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