Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 17
... Tory , was not quite such a fool as Mr. Croker here repre- sents him to be . In the Life of Granville , Lord Lansdowne , which stands a very few pages from the Life of Tickell , mention is made of the accession of Anne , and of the ...
... Tory , was not quite such a fool as Mr. Croker here repre- sents him to be . In the Life of Granville , Lord Lansdowne , which stands a very few pages from the Life of Tickell , mention is made of the accession of Anne , and of the ...
Page 27
... Tory and high Churchman as he was , he manœuvred , we have been told , for an introduction to Tom Paine , so vain of the most childish distinctions , that when he had been to court , he drove to the office where his book was printing ...
... Tory and high Churchman as he was , he manœuvred , we have been told , for an introduction to Tom Paine , so vain of the most childish distinctions , that when he had been to court , he drove to the office where his book was printing ...
Page 35
... Tory leaders , Harley and Bolingbroke in particular , vied with the chiefs of the Whig party in zeal for the encourage- ment of letters . But soon after the accession of the house of Hanover a change took place . The supreme power ...
... Tory leaders , Harley and Bolingbroke in particular , vied with the chiefs of the Whig party in zeal for the encourage- ment of letters . But soon after the accession of the house of Hanover a change took place . The supreme power ...
Page 157
... Tory and Alfieri a courtier . The violence of the chiefs of the German schism made Erasmus a defender of abuses , and turned the author of Utopia into a persecutor . In both cases , the convulsion which had overthrown deeply - seated ...
... Tory and Alfieri a courtier . The violence of the chiefs of the German schism made Erasmus a defender of abuses , and turned the author of Utopia into a persecutor . In both cases , the convulsion which had overthrown deeply - seated ...
Page 237
... Tory at heart . Her religious feelings were all on the side of the Estab- lished Church . Her family feelings pleaded in favour of her exiled brother . Her selfish feelings disposed her to favour the zealots of prerogative . The affec ...
... Tory at heart . Her religious feelings were all on the side of the Estab- lished Church . Her family feelings pleaded in favour of her exiled brother . Her selfish feelings disposed her to favour the zealots of prerogative . The affec ...
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