Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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... reason , if we may use a legal metaphor , have made partition of a province of literature of which they were formerly seized per my et per tout ; and now they hold their respective portions in severalty , instead of holding the whole in ...
... reason , if we may use a legal metaphor , have made partition of a province of literature of which they were formerly seized per my et per tout ; and now they hold their respective portions in severalty , instead of holding the whole in ...
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... reason the matter as we may , experience shows us that a man may believe in election without believing in reprobation , that he may believe in reprobation without being an Antinomian , and that he may be an Antinomian without being a ...
... reason the matter as we may , experience shows us that a man may believe in election without believing in reprobation , that he may believe in reprobation without being an Antinomian , and that he may be an Antinomian without being a ...
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... reason to believe , Strafford had de- bauched . These stories do not rest on vague report . The historians most partial to the minister admit their truth , and censure them in terms which , though too lenient for the occasion , are ...
... reason to believe , Strafford had de- bauched . These stories do not rest on vague report . The historians most partial to the minister admit their truth , and censure them in terms which , though too lenient for the occasion , are ...
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... reason to bear an answer . Warning , it is said , is the end of punishment . But a punish- ment inflicted , not by a general rule , but by an arbitrary discretion , cannot serve the purpose of a warning . It is there- fore useless ; and ...
... reason to bear an answer . Warning , it is said , is the end of punishment . But a punish- ment inflicted , not by a general rule , but by an arbitrary discretion , cannot serve the purpose of a warning . It is there- fore useless ; and ...
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... reason to rejoice that an irreversible law and an impassable barrier protected them from the valour and capacity of Wentworth . It is remarkable that neither Hyde nor Falkland voted against the bill of attainder . There is , indeed , reason ...
... reason to rejoice that an irreversible law and an impassable barrier protected them from the valour and capacity of Wentworth . It is remarkable that neither Hyde nor Falkland voted against the bill of attainder . There is , indeed , reason ...
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