Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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Page 36
... hundred times pawned , and never redeemed . Here , indeed , the Long Parliament stands on still stronger ground than the Convention of 1688. No action of James can be compared to the conduct of Charles with respect to the Petition of ...
... hundred times pawned , and never redeemed . Here , indeed , the Long Parliament stands on still stronger ground than the Convention of 1688. No action of James can be compared to the conduct of Charles with respect to the Petition of ...
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... hundred and sixty years , it has been the fashion to cast upon the Regicides . We have , throughout , abstained from appealing to first principles . We will not appeal to them now . We recur again to the parallel case of the Revolution ...
... hundred and sixty years , it has been the fashion to cast upon the Regicides . We have , throughout , abstained from appealing to first principles . We will not appeal to them now . We recur again to the parallel case of the Revolution ...
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... hundred and fifty years back . We can almost fancy that we are visiting him in his small lodging ; that we see him sitting at the old organ beneath the faded green hangings ; that we can catch the quick twinkle of his eyes , rolling in ...
... hundred and fifty years back . We can almost fancy that we are visiting him in his small lodging ; that we see him sitting at the old organ beneath the faded green hangings ; that we can catch the quick twinkle of his eyes , rolling in ...
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... hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real state of a community can be ... hundred thousand pounds sterling ; a larger sum than England and Ireland , two centuries ago , yielded annually to ...
... hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real state of a community can be ... hundred thousand pounds sterling ; a larger sum than England and Ireland , two centuries ago , yielded annually to ...
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... hundred thou- sand florins ; a sum fully equal , in exchangeable value , to two millions and a half of our money . Four hundred thousand florins were annually coined . Eighty banks conducted the commercial operations , not of Florence ...
... hundred thou- sand florins ; a sum fully equal , in exchangeable value , to two millions and a half of our money . Four hundred thousand florins were annually coined . Eighty banks conducted the commercial operations , not of Florence ...
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