Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 38
... crimes and follies to which public commotions necessarily give birth . They be- wail the unmerited fate of Strafford . They execrate the law- less violence of the army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major ...
... crimes and follies to which public commotions necessarily give birth . They be- wail the unmerited fate of Strafford . They execrate the law- less violence of the army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major ...
Page 40
... crimes , conflicting errors , scepti- cism on points the most clear , dogmatism on points the most mysterious . It is just at this crisis that its enemies love to exhibit it . They pull down the scaffolding from the half- finished ...
... crimes , conflicting errors , scepti- cism on points the most clear , dogmatism on points the most mysterious . It is just at this crisis that its enemies love to exhibit it . They pull down the scaffolding from the half- finished ...
Page 47
... Crime succeeded to crime , and disgrace to disgrace , till the race , accursed of God and man , was a second time driven forth , to wander on the face of the earth , and to be a by - word and a shaking of the head to the nations . Most ...
... Crime succeeded to crime , and disgrace to disgrace , till the race , accursed of God and man , was a second time driven forth , to wander on the face of the earth , and to be a by - word and a shaking of the head to the nations . Most ...
Page 61
... crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . Another remarks that since it was translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to ...
... crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . Another remarks that since it was translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to ...
Page 76
... crimes . When the princes and commonwealths of Italy began to use hired troops , their wisest course would have been to form separate military establishments . Unhappily this was not done . The mercenary warriors of the Peninsula ...
... crimes . When the princes and commonwealths of Italy began to use hired troops , their wisest course would have been to form separate military establishments . Unhappily this was not done . The mercenary warriors of the Peninsula ...
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