Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 34
... stamps and a member of Parliament . Arthur Mainwaring was a commissioner of the customs , and auditor of the imprest . Tickell was secretary to the Lords WALPOLE AND LITERATURE 35 Justices of Ireland . Addison was 34 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... stamps and a member of Parliament . Arthur Mainwaring was a commissioner of the customs , and auditor of the imprest . Tickell was secretary to the Lords WALPOLE AND LITERATURE 35 Justices of Ireland . Addison was 34 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Page 35
... Parliamentary support much of that patronage which had been employed in fostering literary merit ; and Walpole was by no ... Parliament . During the whole course of his administration , therefore , he scarcely befriended a single man of ...
... Parliamentary support much of that patronage which had been employed in fostering literary merit ; and Walpole was by no ... Parliament . During the whole course of his administration , therefore , he scarcely befriended a single man of ...
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... Parliament and the American Congress . In one of the con- versations reported by Boswell this inconsistency displays itself in the most ludicrous manner . Sir Adam Ferguson , ' says Boswell , suggested that luxury corrupts a people ...
... Parliament and the American Congress . In one of the con- versations reported by Boswell this inconsistency displays itself in the most ludicrous manner . Sir Adam Ferguson , ' says Boswell , suggested that luxury corrupts a people ...
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... Parliament ; and if he had carried the vice of profaneness into that service , he would doubtless have received something more than an admonition from Serjeant Bind - their - kings - in- chains , or Captain Hew - Agag - in - pieces ...
... Parliament ; and if he had carried the vice of profaneness into that service , he would doubtless have received something more than an admonition from Serjeant Bind - their - kings - in- chains , or Captain Hew - Agag - in - pieces ...
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... Parliament , the first of those great English commoners whose plain addition of Mister has , to our ears , a more majestic sound than the proudest of the feudal titles . In this hope we have been disappointed ; but assuredly not from ...
... Parliament , the first of those great English commoners whose plain addition of Mister has , to our ears , a more majestic sound than the proudest of the feudal titles . In this hope we have been disappointed ; but assuredly not from ...
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