Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... party . By a strange coincidence of cir- cumstances , it happened that there was a total change of administration between his condemnation and his death so that one party presided at his trial , and another at his execution : there can ...
... party . By a strange coincidence of cir- cumstances , it happened that there was a total change of administration between his condemnation and his death so that one party presided at his trial , and another at his execution : there can ...
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... 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 passed to a man who cared little for poetry or eloquence . The importance of the House of ...
... 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 passed to a man who cared little for poetry or eloquence . The importance of the House of ...
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... party spirit , from rants which , in everything but the diction , resembled those of Squire Western . He was , as a politician , half ice and half fire . the side of his intellect he was a mere Pococurante , far too apathetic about ...
... party spirit , from rants which , in everything but the diction , resembled those of Squire Western . He was , as a politician , half ice and half fire . the side of his intellect he was a mere Pococurante , far too apathetic about ...
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... Party , and his Times . By LORD NUGENT . Two vols . 8vo . London : 1831 . We have read this book with great pleasure , though not exactly with that kind of pleasure which we had expected . We had hoped that Lord Nugent would have been ...
... Party , and his Times . By LORD NUGENT . Two vols . 8vo . London : 1831 . We have read this book with great pleasure , though not exactly with that kind of pleasure which we had expected . We had hoped that Lord Nugent would have been ...
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... party , and attentive to the interests of his constituents . A great and terrible crisis came . A direct attack was made by an arbitrary government on a sacred right of Englishmen , on a right which was the chief security for all their ...
... party , and attentive to the interests of his constituents . A great and terrible crisis came . A direct attack was made by an arbitrary government on a sacred right of Englishmen , on a right which was the chief security for all their ...
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