Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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... gives us a novel ; Mr. Hallam a critical and argumenta- tive history . Both are occupied with the same matter . But the former looks at it with the eye of a sculptor . His intention is to give an express and lively image of its external ...
... gives us a novel ; Mr. Hallam a critical and argumenta- tive history . Both are occupied with the same matter . But the former looks at it with the eye of a sculptor . His intention is to give an express and lively image of its external ...
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... give , provocation , the most distinguished Protestants attempted to set aside her rights in favour of the Lady Jane . That attempt , and the subsequent insurrection of Wyatt , furnished at least as good a 6 Macaulay's Essays.
... give , provocation , the most distinguished Protestants attempted to set aside her rights in favour of the Lady Jane . That attempt , and the subsequent insurrection of Wyatt , furnished at least as good a 6 Macaulay's Essays.
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... give vent without calling foul names . Equally false to political and to religious obligations , the primate was first the tool of Somerset , and then the tool of Northumberland . When the Protector wished to put his own brother to ...
... give vent without calling foul names . Equally false to political and to religious obligations , the primate was first the tool of Somerset , and then the tool of Northumberland . When the Protector wished to put his own brother to ...
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... give up to punishment every instrument of their tyranny , and await with meek and smiling implacability the blessed day of perjury and revenge . We will pass by the instances of oppression and falsehood which disgraced the early part of ...
... give up to punishment every instrument of their tyranny , and await with meek and smiling implacability the blessed day of perjury and revenge . We will pass by the instances of oppression and falsehood which disgraced the early part of ...
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... give occasion of offence , even to the unreasonable . On the other hand , a tyrant , whose whole life was a lie , who hated the Constitution the more because he had been compelled to feign respect for it , and to whom his own honour and ...
... give occasion of offence , even to the unreasonable . On the other hand , a tyrant , whose whole life was a lie , who hated the Constitution the more because he had been compelled to feign respect for it , and to whom his own honour and ...
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