Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... employed against our James the Second , and that he urged his pupil to violent and per- fidious measures , as the surest means of accelerating the moment of deliverance and revenge . Another supposition which Lord Bacon seems to ...
... employed against our James the Second , and that he urged his pupil to violent and per- fidious measures , as the surest means of accelerating the moment of deliverance and revenge . Another supposition which Lord Bacon seems to ...
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... employed the keys of the Church to release himself from the most sacred engagements , and its wealth to pamper his mistresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But ...
... employed the keys of the Church to release himself from the most sacred engagements , and its wealth to pamper his mistresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But ...
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... employed two hundred factories and thirty thousand workmen . The cloth annually produced sold , at an average , for twelve hundred thousand florins ; a sum fully equal in exchangeable value to two millions and a half of our money . Four ...
... employed two hundred factories and thirty thousand workmen . The cloth annually produced sold , at an average , for twelve hundred thousand florins ; a sum fully equal in exchangeable value to two millions and a half of our money . Four ...
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... employ them . Early in the fourteenth century came forth the Divine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest work of imagination which had appeared since the poems of Homer . The following generation produced indeed no second Dante : but ...
... employ them . Early in the fourteenth century came forth the Divine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest work of imagination which had appeared since the poems of Homer . The following generation produced indeed no second Dante : but ...
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... employing mercenaries became universal , at a time when it was almost unknown in other countries . When war becomes the trade of a separate class , the least dangerous course left to a government is to force that class into a standing ...
... employing mercenaries became universal , at a time when it was almost unknown in other countries . When war becomes the trade of a separate class , the least dangerous course left to a government is to force that class into a standing ...
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