Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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... important share in bringing the Reformation about , Ridley was perhaps the only person who did not consider it as a mere political job . Even Ridley did not play a very prominent part . Among the statesmen and prelates who principally ...
... important share in bringing the Reformation about , Ridley was perhaps the only person who did not consider it as a mere political job . Even Ridley did not play a very prominent part . Among the statesmen and prelates who principally ...
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... important ; so important , as alone to justify the utmost severity , even though it were certain that his fate would not deter others from imitating his example . At present , indeed , we should think it extremely pernicious to take ...
... important ; so important , as alone to justify the utmost severity , even though it were certain that his fate would not deter others from imitating his example . At present , indeed , we should think it extremely pernicious to take ...
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... importance . The difference in tale on the one side far more than makes up for the difference in weight on the other . If there be any universal objection to retrospective punish- ment , there is no more to be said . But such is not the ...
... importance . The difference in tale on the one side far more than makes up for the difference in weight on the other . If there be any universal objection to retrospective punish- ment , there is no more to be said . But such is not the ...
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... importance is sufficient to prove . But surely it was not strange that the majority of the nobles , and of the deputies chosen by the commons , should approve of revolutions which the nobles and commons had effected . The Parliament did ...
... importance is sufficient to prove . But surely it was not strange that the majority of the nobles , and of the deputies chosen by the commons , should approve of revolutions which the nobles and commons had effected . The Parliament did ...
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... importance to a prerogative which has not been exercised for a hundred and thirty years , which probably will never be exercised again , and which can scarcely , in any conceivable case , be exercised for a salutary purpose . But the ...
... importance to a prerogative which has not been exercised for a hundred and thirty years , which probably will never be exercised again , and which can scarcely , in any conceivable case , be exercised for a salutary purpose . But the ...
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