Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... SPAIN . January 1833 HORACE WALPOLE . 183 October 1833 249 WILLIAM PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM . January 1834 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH . July 1835 EDITOR'S APPENDIX Glossary of Allusions INDEX VOL . II . 38X1084 A 298 354 439 453 465 CRITICAL ...
... SPAIN . January 1833 HORACE WALPOLE . 183 October 1833 249 WILLIAM PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM . January 1834 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH . July 1835 EDITOR'S APPENDIX Glossary of Allusions INDEX VOL . II . 38X1084 A 298 354 439 453 465 CRITICAL ...
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... Spain and Sicily must surely contain many pious robbers and well - principled assassins . Johnson could easily see that a roundhead who named all his children after Solomon's singers , and talked in the House of Commons about seeking ...
... Spain and Sicily must surely contain many pious robbers and well - principled assassins . Johnson could easily see that a roundhead who named all his children after Solomon's singers , and talked in the House of Commons about seeking ...
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... Spain , that the Constitution of Cadiz should be reestablished , that the Cortes should meet again , that the Spanish Prynnes and Burtons , who are now wandering in rags round Leicester Square , should be restored to their country ...
... Spain , that the Constitution of Cadiz should be reestablished , that the Cortes should meet again , that the Spanish Prynnes and Burtons , who are now wandering in rags round Leicester Square , should be restored to their country ...
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... Spain . But to this endurance there was a limit . If the government ventured to adopt mea- sures which the people really felt to be oppressive , it was soon compelled to change its course . When Henry the Eighth attempted to raise a ...
... Spain . But to this endurance there was a limit . If the government ventured to adopt mea- sures which the people really felt to be oppressive , it was soon compelled to change its course . When Henry the Eighth attempted to raise a ...
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... Spain . But what can be said in defence of a ruler who is at once indifferent and intolerant ? If the great Queen , whose memory is still held in just veneration by Englishmen , had possessed suffi- cient virtue and sufficient ...
... Spain . But what can be said in defence of a ruler who is at once indifferent and intolerant ? If the great Queen , whose memory is still held in just veneration by Englishmen , had possessed suffi- cient virtue and sufficient ...
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