Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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... France , the practice has been carried to a length somewhat whimsical . M. Sismondi publishes a grave and stately history of the Merovingian Kings , very valuable , and a little tedious . He then sends forth as a companion to it a novel ...
... France , the practice has been carried to a length somewhat whimsical . M. Sismondi publishes a grave and stately history of the Merovingian Kings , very valuable , and a little tedious . He then sends forth as a companion to it a novel ...
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... France , in Switzerland , and in Scotland , the contest against the Papal power was essentially a religious contest . In all those countries , indeed , the cause of the Reformation , like every other great cause , attracted to itself ...
... France , in Switzerland , and in Scotland , the contest against the Papal power was essentially a religious contest . In all those countries , indeed , the cause of the Reformation , like every other great cause , attracted to itself ...
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... France , if the project of Northumberland had not been blasted in its infancy . That Elizabeth had a better claim than the Queen of Scotland was indisputable . To the part which Cranmer , and unfortunately some better men than Cranmer ...
... France , if the project of Northumberland had not been blasted in its infancy . That Elizabeth had a better claim than the Queen of Scotland was indisputable . To the part which Cranmer , and unfortunately some better men than Cranmer ...
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... France , the sovereign was more absolute . Yet , even in France , the States - General alone could constitutionally impose taxes ; and , at the very time when the authority of those assemblies was beginning to languish , the Parliament ...
... France , the sovereign was more absolute . Yet , even in France , the States - General alone could constitutionally impose taxes ; and , at the very time when the authority of those assemblies was beginning to languish , the Parliament ...
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... France the institution of the States was only mentioned by lawyers as a part of the ancient theory of their government . It slept a deep sleep , destined to be broken by a tremendous waking . No person remembered the sittings of the ...
... France the institution of the States was only mentioned by lawyers as a part of the ancient theory of their government . It slept a deep sleep , destined to be broken by a tremendous waking . No person remembered the sittings of the ...
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