Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1J. M. Dent, 1951 - 1338 pages |
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Page 117
... mind , would be found no ward if you should die to - morrow , yet it is a great hazard , methinks , to see so sweet a disposition guarded with no more , amongst a people whereof many make it their religion to be superstitious in impiety ...
... mind , would be found no ward if you should die to - morrow , yet it is a great hazard , methinks , to see so sweet a disposition guarded with no more , amongst a people whereof many make it their religion to be superstitious in impiety ...
Page 331
... mind . On this , as on other occasions , Lord Dover performed his part diligently , judiciously , and without the slightest ostentation . He had two merits which are rarely found together in a commentator , he was content to be merely a ...
... mind . On this , as on other occasions , Lord Dover performed his part diligently , judiciously , and without the slightest ostentation . He had two merits which are rarely found together in a commentator , he was content to be merely a ...
Page 470
... mind , before he became first minister , had been , as we have said , in an unsound state ; and physical and moral causes now concurred to make the derangement of his faculties complete . The gout , which had been the torment of his ...
... mind , before he became first minister , had been , as we have said , in an unsound state ; and physical and moral causes now concurred to make the derangement of his faculties complete . The gout , which had been the torment of his ...
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HALLAMS HISTORY | 3 |
RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES | 31 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 77 |
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