Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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Page vii
... interest in the matter . . . . And he certainly has not his equal anywhere for covering his subject in the pointing- stick fashion . You need not - you had much better not - pin your faith on his details , but his Pisgah sights are ...
... interest in the matter . . . . And he certainly has not his equal anywhere for covering his subject in the pointing- stick fashion . You need not - you had much better not - pin your faith on his details , but his Pisgah sights are ...
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... . No transaction in our annals is more unjustifiable than this . If a hereditary title were to be respected , Mary possessed it . If a parliamentary title were preferable , Mary possessed that also . If the interest 12 Macaulay's Essays.
... . No transaction in our annals is more unjustifiable than this . If a hereditary title were to be respected , Mary possessed it . If a parliamentary title were preferable , Mary possessed that also . If the interest 12 Macaulay's Essays.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. preferable , Mary possessed that also . If the interest of the Protestant religion required a departure from the ordinary rule of succession , that interest would have been best served by raising ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. preferable , Mary possessed that also . If the interest of the Protestant religion required a departure from the ordinary rule of succession , that interest would have been best served by raising ...
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... interest effaces past services and past injuries from their minds together . Their only object is self - preservation ; and for this they conciliate those who wrong them , just as they abandon those who serve them . Before we extol a ...
... interest effaces past services and past injuries from their minds together . Their only object is self - preservation ; and for this they conciliate those who wrong them , just as they abandon those who serve them . Before we extol a ...
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... interests of religion or of the state . Before the close of the reign of Elizabeth this opposition began to show itself . It broke forth on the question of the monopolies . Even the imperial Lioness was compelled to abandon her prey ...
... interests of religion or of the state . Before the close of the reign of Elizabeth this opposition began to show itself . It broke forth on the question of the monopolies . Even the imperial Lioness was compelled to abandon her prey ...
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