Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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... looks at it with the eye of a sculptor . His intention is to give an express and lively image of its external form . The latter is an anatomist . His task is to dissect the subject to its inmost recesses , and to lay bare before us all ...
... looks at it with the eye of a sculptor . His intention is to give an express and lively image of its external form . The latter is an anatomist . His task is to dissect the subject to its inmost recesses , and to lay bare before us all ...
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... look . No portion of our annals has been more perplexed and misrepresented by writers of different parties than the history of the Reformation . In this labyrinth of falsehood and sophistry , the guidance of Mr. Hallam is peculiarly ...
... look . No portion of our annals has been more perplexed and misrepresented by writers of different parties than the history of the Reformation . In this labyrinth of falsehood and sophistry , the guidance of Mr. Hallam is peculiarly ...
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... look on his recantation as a single blemish on an honourable life , the frailty of an unguarded moment . But , in fact , his recantation was in strict accordance with the system on which he had constantly acted . It was part of a ...
... look on his recantation as a single blemish on an honourable life , the frailty of an unguarded moment . But , in fact , his recantation was in strict accordance with the system on which he had constantly acted . It was part of a ...
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... looks on them as more contemptible than the criminal whom they betray . Was Strafford innocent ? Was he a meritorious servant of the Crown ? If so , what shall we think of the Prince , who having solemnly promised him that not a hair of ...
... looks on them as more contemptible than the criminal whom they betray . Was Strafford innocent ? Was he a meritorious servant of the Crown ? If so , what shall we think of the Prince , who having solemnly promised him that not a hair of ...
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... look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity . Thus misfortune turned the greatest of Parliaments into the despised Rump , and the worst of Kings into the Blessed Martyr . We Mr. Hallam decidedly condemns the execution of ...
... look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity . Thus misfortune turned the greatest of Parliaments into the despised Rump , and the worst of Kings into the Blessed Martyr . We Mr. Hallam decidedly condemns the execution of ...
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