Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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... manner of the book is , on the whole , not unworthy of the matter . The language , even where most faulty , is weighty and massive , and indicates strong sense in every line . It often rises to an eloquence , not florid or impassioned ...
... manner of the book is , on the whole , not unworthy of the matter . The language , even where most faulty , is weighty and massive , and indicates strong sense in every line . It often rises to an eloquence , not florid or impassioned ...
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... manner the great and comfortable doctrines of the Tory creed , those particularly which relate to restrictions on worship and on trade , are adored by squires and rectors in Pitt Clubs , under the name of a minister who was as bad a ...
... manner the great and comfortable doctrines of the Tory creed , those particularly which relate to restrictions on worship and on trade , are adored by squires and rectors in Pitt Clubs , under the name of a minister who was as bad a ...
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... manner on the same data , and always did what they thought it their duty to do , this mode of dispensing punishment might be extremely judicious . But as people who agree about premises often disagree about conclusions , and as no man ...
... manner on the same data , and always did what they thought it their duty to do , this mode of dispensing punishment might be extremely judicious . But as people who agree about premises often disagree about conclusions , and as no man ...
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... manner , that the Government then entertained a fixed purpose of destroying the old parliamentary constitution of England , or at least of reducing it to a mere shadow . We hasten , however , to a part of his work which , though it ...
... manner , that the Government then entertained a fixed purpose of destroying the old parliamentary constitution of England , or at least of reducing it to a mere shadow . We hasten , however , to a part of his work which , though it ...
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... manner agreeable to his daughter - in - law , whom , as there is every reason to believe , Strafford had de- bauched . These stories do not rest on vague report . The historians most partial to the minister admit their truth , and ...
... manner agreeable to his daughter - in - law , whom , as there is every reason to believe , Strafford had de- bauched . These stories do not rest on vague report . The historians most partial to the minister admit their truth , and ...
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