Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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Page viii
... less successful have a picturesque anima- tion , and convey an impression of power that will not easily be matched . And , again , we need to bear in mind that they were the productions of a writer immersed in business , written in his ...
... less successful have a picturesque anima- tion , and convey an impression of power that will not easily be matched . And , again , we need to bear in mind that they were the productions of a writer immersed in business , written in his ...
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... less excuse . The true distinction is perfectly obvious . To punish a man because he has committed a crime , or because he is believed , though unjustly , to have committed a crime , is not persecution . To punish a man , because we ...
... less excuse . The true distinction is perfectly obvious . To punish a man because he has committed a crime , or because he is believed , though unjustly , to have committed a crime , is not persecution . To punish a man , because we ...
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... less . In fact , the danger was created solely by the cruelty . But it is super- fluous to press the argument . By no artifice of ingenuity can the stigma of persecution , the worst blemish of the English Church , be effaced or patched ...
... less . In fact , the danger was created solely by the cruelty . But it is super- fluous to press the argument . By no artifice of ingenuity can the stigma of persecution , the worst blemish of the English Church , be effaced or patched ...
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... less tyrant to Anne of Cleves . He attached himself to Cromwell while the fortunes of Cromwell flourished . He voted for cutting off Cromwell's head without a trial , when the tide of royal favour turned . He conformed backwards and ...
... less tyrant to Anne of Cleves . He attached himself to Cromwell while the fortunes of Cromwell flourished . He voted for cutting off Cromwell's head without a trial , when the tide of royal favour turned . He conformed backwards and ...
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... less just , we think , than his distinctions usually are . His opinion , so far as we can collect it , is this , that there are almost insur- mountable objections to retrospective laws for capital punish- ment , 22 Macaulay's Essays.
... less just , we think , than his distinctions usually are . His opinion , so far as we can collect it , is this , that there are almost insur- mountable objections to retrospective laws for capital punish- ment , 22 Macaulay's Essays.
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