Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 31
... favour of the Revolution of 1688 may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect ' , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better ...
... favour of the Revolution of 1688 may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect ' , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better ...
Page 50
... favour ; and , confident of that favour , they despised all the accomplish- ments and all the dignities of the world . If they were unac- quainted with the works of philosophers and poets , they were deeply read in the oracles of God ...
... favour ; and , confident of that favour , they despised all the accomplish- ments and all the dignities of the world . If they were unac- quainted with the works of philosophers and poets , they were deeply read in the oracles of God ...
Page 108
... favour and on their great personal qualities . Such a work would exhibit to us the real nature of that species of sovereignty , so sin- gular and so often misunderstood , which the Greeks deno- minated tyranny , and which , modified in ...
... favour and on their great personal qualities . Such a work would exhibit to us the real nature of that species of sovereignty , so sin- gular and so often misunderstood , which the Greeks deno- minated tyranny , and which , modified in ...
Page 118
... favour of Elizabeth apply with much greater force to the case of her sister Mary . The Catholics did not , at the time of Elizabeth's accession , rise in arms to seat a Pretender on her throne . But before Mary had given , or could give ...
... favour of Elizabeth apply with much greater force to the case of her sister Mary . The Catholics did not , at the time of Elizabeth's accession , rise in arms to seat a Pretender on her throne . But before Mary had given , or could give ...
Page 125
... favour by serving Henry in the disgraceful affair of his first divorce . He promoted the mar- riage of Anne Boleyn with the King . On a frivolous pretence he pronounced that marriage null and void . On a pretence , if possible , still ...
... favour by serving Henry in the disgraceful affair of his first divorce . He promoted the mar- riage of Anne Boleyn with the King . On a frivolous pretence he pronounced that marriage null and void . On a pretence , if possible , still ...
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