Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 46
... established , as set down in the Instrument of Government , and the Humble Petition and Advice , were excellent . His practice , it is true , too often departed from the theory of these institutions . But , had he lived a few years ...
... established , as set down in the Instrument of Government , and the Humble Petition and Advice , were excellent . His practice , it is true , too often departed from the theory of these institutions . But , had he lived a few years ...
Page 69
... established . The operations of the com- mercial machine were facilitated by many useful and beauti- ful inventions . We doubt whether any country of Europe , our own excepted , have at the present time reached so high a point of wealth ...
... established . The operations of the com- mercial machine were facilitated by many useful and beauti- ful inventions . We doubt whether any country of Europe , our own excepted , have at the present time reached so high a point of wealth ...
Page 70
... establish- ments were sometimes of a magnitude which may surprise even the contemporaries of the Barings and the Rothschilds . Two houses advanced to Edward the Third of England up- wards of three hundred thousand marks , at a time when ...
... establish- ments were sometimes of a magnitude which may surprise even the contemporaries of the Barings and the Rothschilds . Two houses advanced to Edward the Third of England up- wards of three hundred thousand marks , at a time when ...
Page 90
... established solely by the comparison of hands . Our suspicions are strengthened by the circumstance , that the same manuscript contained a description of the plague of 1527 , which has also , in consequence , been added to the works of ...
... established solely by the comparison of hands . Our suspicions are strengthened by the circumstance , that the same manuscript contained a description of the plague of 1527 , which has also , in consequence , been added to the works of ...
Page 105
... established by authentic testimony can be racked or chipped to suit his Procrustean hypothesis , he puts up with some monstrous fable about Siam , or Bantam , or Japan , told by writers compared with whom Lucian and Gulliver were ...
... established by authentic testimony can be racked or chipped to suit his Procrustean hypothesis , he puts up with some monstrous fable about Siam , or Bantam , or Japan , told by writers compared with whom Lucian and Gulliver were ...
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