Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... England who does not know that the marquis was hanged . The account of the execution is one of the finest passages in Lord Clarendon's History . We can scarcely suppose that Mr. Croker has never read that passage ; and yet we can ...
... England who does not know that the marquis was hanged . The account of the execution is one of the finest passages in Lord Clarendon's History . We can scarcely suppose that Mr. Croker has never read that passage ; and yet we can ...
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... England . But would it , on that account , be judicious in a writer of our own times to publish an edition of Hume's History of England , in which large extracts from Pepys and Mrs. Hutchinson should be incorporated with the original ...
... England . But would it , on that account , be judicious in a writer of our own times to publish an edition of Hume's History of England , in which large extracts from Pepys and Mrs. Hutchinson should be incorporated with the original ...
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... England . The moderation of his opinions on the subject of predestination gave offence to some zealous persons . We have seen an absurd allegory , the heroine of which is named Hephzibah , written by some raving supralapsarian preacher ...
... England . The moderation of his opinions on the subject of predestination gave offence to some zealous persons . We have seen an absurd allegory , the heroine of which is named Hephzibah , written by some raving supralapsarian preacher ...
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... England during the latter half of the seventeenth century , there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree . One of those minds duced the Paradise Lost , the other the Pilgrim's Progress . pro ...
... England during the latter half of the seventeenth century , there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree . One of those minds duced the Paradise Lost , the other the Pilgrim's Progress . pro ...
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... England . These Memoirs must be considered as Memoirs of the history of England ; and , as such , they well deserve to be attentively perused . They contain some curious facts which , to us at least , are new , much spirited narrative ...
... England . These Memoirs must be considered as Memoirs of the history of England ; and , as such , they well deserve to be attentively perused . They contain some curious facts which , to us at least , are new , much spirited narrative ...
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