Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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Page 11
... scarcely possible for any man of sense who knows the history of the times to preserve his gravity . If the memory of the archbishop had been left to find its own place , he would have soon been lost among the crowd which is mingled " A ...
... scarcely possible for any man of sense who knows the history of the times to preserve his gravity . If the memory of the archbishop had been left to find its own place , he would have soon been lost among the crowd which is mingled " A ...
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... scarcely be called rash , which could not have been made the subject of an ordinary civil action , the Lord Lieutenant dragged a man of high rank , married to a relative of that saint about whom he whimpered to the peers , before a ...
... scarcely be called rash , which could not have been made the subject of an ordinary civil action , the Lord Lieutenant dragged a man of high rank , married to a relative of that saint about whom he whimpered to the peers , before a ...
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... scarcely conceive that any case which does not call for capital punishment can call for punishment by a retrospective act . We can scarcely conceive a man so wicked and so dangerous that the whole course of law must be disturbed in ...
... scarcely conceive that any case which does not call for capital punishment can call for punishment by a retrospective act . We can scarcely conceive a man so wicked and so dangerous that the whole course of law must be disturbed in ...
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... scarcely condemn the Long Parliament because , having a sovereign so situated , they thought it necessary to place him under strict restraints . The influence of Henrietta Maria had already been deeply felt in political affairs . In the ...
... scarcely condemn the Long Parliament because , having a sovereign so situated , they thought it necessary to place him under strict restraints . The influence of Henrietta Maria had already been deeply felt in political affairs . In the ...
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... scarcely , in any conceivable case , be exercised for a salutary purpose . But the great security , the security without which every other would have been insufficient , was the power of the sword . This both parties thoroughly ...
... scarcely , in any conceivable case , be exercised for a salutary purpose . But the great security , the security without which every other would have been insufficient , was the power of the sword . This both parties thoroughly ...
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