Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... minister , and son of a peer who was secretary of state , and leader of the House of Lords.'3 Charles Towns- hend was not nephew , but grandnephew , of the Duke of Newcastle , not son , but grandson , of the Lord Townshend who was ...
... minister , and son of a peer who was secretary of state , and leader of the House of Lords.'3 Charles Towns- hend was not nephew , but grandnephew , of the Duke of Newcastle , not son , but grandson , of the Lord Townshend who was ...
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... minister . It runs thus : Joannes Macleod , etc. , gentis suæ Philarchus , etc. , Flora Macdonald matrimoniali vinculo con- jugatus turrem hanc Beganodunensem proævorum habitaculum longe vetustissimum , diu penitus labefac- tatam , anno ...
... minister . It runs thus : Joannes Macleod , etc. , gentis suæ Philarchus , etc. , Flora Macdonald matrimoniali vinculo con- jugatus turrem hanc Beganodunensem proævorum habitaculum longe vetustissimum , diu penitus labefac- tatam , anno ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. prove nothing for the minister's Latin , whatever it might prove for his Greek . But it is clear that the word Philarchus means , not a man who rules by love , but a man who loves rule . The ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. prove nothing for the minister's Latin , whatever it might prove for his Greek . But it is clear that the word Philarchus means , not a man who rules by love , but a man who loves rule . The ...
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... minister to make room for men less able and equally immoral . The opposition could reward its eulogists with little more than promises and caresses . St. James's would give nothing : Leicester house had nothing to give . The Thus , at ...
... minister to make room for men less able and equally immoral . The opposition could reward its eulogists with little more than promises and caresses . St. James's would give nothing : Leicester house had nothing to give . The Thus , at ...
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... ministers of the kirk had not been ordained by bishops . His mode of estimating the piety of his neighbours was somewhat singular . Campbell , ' said he , is a good man , a pious man . I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a ...
... ministers of the kirk had not been ordained by bishops . His mode of estimating the piety of his neighbours was somewhat singular . Campbell , ' said he , is a good man , a pious man . I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a ...
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