Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his ...
... authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his ...
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... authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as ...
... authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as ...
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... authority , a weak preference of form to substance , a childish passion for mummeries , an idolatrous veneration for the priestly character , and , above all , a merciless intolerance . This , how- ever , we waive . We will concede that ...
... authority , a weak preference of form to substance , a childish passion for mummeries , an idolatrous veneration for the priestly character , and , above all , a merciless intolerance . This , how- ever , we waive . We will concede that ...
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... authority , not even reserving to himself a veto on its enactments ; and he did not require that the chief magistracy should be hereditary in his family . Thus far , we think , if the circumstances of the time and the opportunities ...
... authority , not even reserving to himself a veto on its enactments ; and he did not require that the chief magistracy should be hereditary in his family . Thus far , we think , if the circumstances of the time and the opportunities ...
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... authority . His death dis- solved the whole frame of society . The army rose against the parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in ...
... authority . His death dis- solved the whole frame of society . The army rose against the parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in ...
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