Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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Page 39
... passed without some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly violated ; arbitrary judgments , exorbitant fines , and unwarranted imprisonments were grievances of daily Occurrence . If these ...
... passed without some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly violated ; arbitrary judgments , exorbitant fines , and unwarranted imprisonments were grievances of daily Occurrence . If these ...
Page 40
... passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no tie could ...
... passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no tie could ...
Page 56
... passed away . Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes , had been ordained on his account . For his sake empires had risen , and flourished , and decayed . For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the ...
... passed away . Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes , had been ordained on his account . For his sake empires had risen , and flourished , and decayed . For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the ...
Page 63
... passed on to other subjects , and abandoned prelacy to the crowd of writers who now hastened to insult a falling party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing the torch of truth into those dark and infected recesses ...
... passed on to other subjects , and abandoned prelacy to the crowd of writers who now hastened to insult a falling party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing the torch of truth into those dark and infected recesses ...
Page 118
... passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay undistinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest statesman of Florence . In the church of Santa Croce a monu- ment ...
... passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay undistinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest statesman of Florence . In the church of Santa Croce a monu- ment ...
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