Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... persecution of the Whigs which followed the dis- solution of the Oxford parliament , and that , in consequence of a general seizure of his papers , this work may have been Macaulay , Essays . I. 1 brought to the office in which it has ...
... persecution of the Whigs which followed the dis- solution of the Oxford parliament , and that , in consequence of a general seizure of his papers , this work may have been Macaulay , Essays . I. 1 brought to the office in which it has ...
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... persecution , tyranny , and falsehood ! We charge him with having broken his coronation oath ; and we are told that he kept his marriage vow ! We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hot ...
... persecution , tyranny , and falsehood ! We charge him with having broken his coronation oath ; and we are told that he kept his marriage vow ! We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hot ...
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... persecute . The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier , and the Ana- thema Maranatha of every fawning dean . In every high place , worship was paid to Charles and James , Belial and Moloch ; and England ...
... persecute . The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier , and the Ana- thema Maranatha of every fawning dean . In every high place , worship was paid to Charles and James , Belial and Moloch ; and England ...
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... persecuted neither Papists nor Puri- tans as such , and that the severe measures which she oc- casionally adopted were dictated , not by religious intole- rance , but by political necessity . Even the excellent account of those times ...
... persecuted neither Papists nor Puri- tans as such , and that the severe measures which she oc- casionally adopted were dictated , not by religious intole- rance , but by political necessity . Even the excellent account of those times ...
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... persecution since the creation . For there never was a religious persecution in which some odious crime was not , justly or unjustly , said to be obviously deducible from the doctrines of the persecuted party . We might say that the ...
... persecution since the creation . For there never was a religious persecution in which some odious crime was not , justly or unjustly , said to be obviously deducible from the doctrines of the persecuted party . We might say that the ...
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