Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856 - 414 pages |
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... French Protestant . It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those times that we must seek for the real explanation of what seems most mys- terious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . As this ...
... French Protestant . It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those times that we must seek for the real explanation of what seems most mys- terious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . As this ...
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... French , indulged in violation of hos - effect this great object ought alone to pitality , of decency , of love itself , the wanton inhumanity which was common to all the invaders , had made them ob- jects of deadly hatred to the ...
... French , indulged in violation of hos - effect this great object ought alone to pitality , of decency , of love itself , the wanton inhumanity which was common to all the invaders , had made them ob- jects of deadly hatred to the ...
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... French nation , at the moment when it was waking from the long sleep of political and religious bigotry ; and , in consequence , he be- came a favourite . The English , at that time , considered a Frenchman who talked about ...
... French nation , at the moment when it was waking from the long sleep of political and religious bigotry ; and , in consequence , he be- came a favourite . The English , at that time , considered a Frenchman who talked about ...
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... French monarchy than the Calvinists , on the ground that , the Catholics have ever given to the if they were spared , they would in- English monarchy since the Reforma- fallibly commit all the atrocities of tion ; and that too with much ...
... French monarchy than the Calvinists , on the ground that , the Catholics have ever given to the if they were spared , they would in- English monarchy since the Reforma- fallibly commit all the atrocities of tion ; and that too with much ...
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... French Revolution , that Infidelity is system . But her imperious temper , connected with Republicanism . her keen sagacity , and her peculiar perfectly true that a church , consti- situation , soon led her to attach herself tuted on ...
... French Revolution , that Infidelity is system . But her imperious temper , connected with Republicanism . her keen sagacity , and her peculiar perfectly true that a church , consti- situation , soon led her to attach herself tuted on ...
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