Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 56
... favourite historians were those who , like Lord Hailes , aspired to no higher dignity . He always spoke with contempt of Robertson . Hume he would not even read . He affronted one of his friends for talking to him about Catiline's ...
... favourite historians were those who , like Lord Hailes , aspired to no higher dignity . He always spoke with contempt of Robertson . Hume he would not even read . He affronted one of his friends for talking to him about Catiline's ...
Page 64
... a greater favourite than Jack the Giant - killer . Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone back- THE TINKER'S MIRACLE 65 Iward and forward a hundred times 64 JOHN BUNYAN.
... a greater favourite than Jack the Giant - killer . Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone back- THE TINKER'S MIRACLE 65 Iward and forward a hundred times 64 JOHN BUNYAN.
Page 71
... favourite metaphor , as a brand plucked from the burning . ' Mr. Ivimey calls him the depraved Bunyan and the wicked tinker of Elstow . Surely Mr. Ivimey ought to have been too familiar with the bitter accusations which the most pious ...
... favourite metaphor , as a brand plucked from the burning . ' Mr. Ivimey calls him the depraved Bunyan and the wicked tinker of Elstow . Surely Mr. Ivimey ought to have been too familiar with the bitter accusations which the most pious ...
Page 83
... favourites of the last Saxon king . During the contest between the houses of York and Lancaster , the Hampdens adhered to the party of the Red Rose , and were , consequently , persecuted by Edward the Fourth , and favoured by Henry the ...
... favourites of the last Saxon king . During the contest between the houses of York and Lancaster , the Hampdens adhered to the party of the Red Rose , and were , consequently , persecuted by Edward the Fourth , and favoured by Henry the ...
Page 90
... story of the Gowries was not forgotten . The ignominious fondness of the King for his minions , the perjuries , the sorceries , the poisonings , which his chief favourites WEAKNESS OF JAMES I. 91 had planned within the walls 90 JOHN ...
... story of the Gowries was not forgotten . The ignominious fondness of the King for his minions , the perjuries , the sorceries , the poisonings , which his chief favourites WEAKNESS OF JAMES I. 91 had planned within the walls 90 JOHN ...
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