Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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Page 3
... respect they often remind us of the Discourses of Machiavelli . The style is sometimes open to the charge of harshness . We have also here and there remarked a little of that unpleasant trick , which Gibbon brought into fashion , the ...
... respect they often remind us of the Discourses of Machiavelli . The style is sometimes open to the charge of harshness . We have also here and there remarked a little of that unpleasant trick , which Gibbon brought into fashion , the ...
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... respect to the Papists and Puritans sprang from a widely different principle . If those who deny that the founders of the Church were guilty of religious persecution mean only that the founders of the Church were not influenced by any ...
... respect to the Papists and Puritans sprang from a widely different principle . If those who deny that the founders of the Church were guilty of religious persecution mean only that the founders of the Church were not influenced by any ...
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... respect . But when a man who loves his doctrines more than the lives of his neighbours , loves his own little finger better than his doctrines , a very simple argument à fortiori will enable us to estimate . the amount of his ...
... respect . But when a man who loves his doctrines more than the lives of his neighbours , loves his own little finger better than his doctrines , a very simple argument à fortiori will enable us to estimate . the amount of his ...
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... respect to foreign powers , and the vast resources which the suppression of the monasteries placed at his disposal , enabled him to oppress both the religious factions equally . He punished with impartial severity those who renounced ...
... respect to foreign powers , and the vast resources which the suppression of the monasteries placed at his disposal , enabled him to oppress both the religious factions equally . He punished with impartial severity those who renounced ...
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... respect to the Catholics , indeed , the rigour of persecution abated after her death . James soon found that they were unable to injure him , and that the animosity which the Puritan party felt towards them drove them of necessity to ...
... respect to the Catholics , indeed , the rigour of persecution abated after her death . James soon found that they were unable to injure him , and that the animosity which the Puritan party felt towards them drove them of necessity to ...
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