Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... POEMS CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS • MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . • CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON PAGE 1 60 109 210 261 285 301 341 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
... POEMS CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS • MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . • CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON PAGE 1 60 109 210 261 285 301 341 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
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... Lords and Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the ...
... Lords and Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the ...
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... Lord Clarendon . For himself he demanded indeed the first place in the commonwealth ; but with powers scarcely so great as those of a Dutch stadtholder , or an American president . He gave the Parliament a voice in the appointment of ...
... Lord Clarendon . For himself he demanded indeed the first place in the commonwealth ; but with powers scarcely so great as those of a Dutch stadtholder , or an American president . He gave the Parliament a voice in the appointment of ...
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... Lord Lyttelton charges the poor Florentine with the manifold treasons of the house of Guise , and with the massacre of St. Bartholomew . Several authors have hinted that the Gunpowder Plot is to be primarily attributed to his doctrines ...
... Lord Lyttelton charges the poor Florentine with the manifold treasons of the house of Guise , and with the massacre of St. Bartholomew . Several authors have hinted that the Gunpowder Plot is to be primarily attributed to his doctrines ...
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... Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious men . It would be easy to show that neither of these solutions is consistent with many ...
... Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious men . It would be easy to show that neither of these solutions is consistent with many ...
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