Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 35
... army , and a national debt , to the rule , however restricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The Long Parlia- ment acted on the same principle , and is entitled to the same praise . They could not trust the King . He had no doubt ...
... army , and a national debt , to the rule , however restricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The Long Parlia- ment acted on the same principle , and is entitled to the same praise . They could not trust the King . He had no doubt ...
Page 38
... army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their districts ; sol- diers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession of the ...
... army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their districts ; sol- diers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession of the ...
Page 39
... army encamped on the Rhine or the Xeres . It is said that , when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to indulge without restraint in such a rare and expensive luxury , nothing is to be seen but intoxica- tion . Soon ...
... army encamped on the Rhine or the Xeres . It is said that , when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to indulge without restraint in such a rare and expensive luxury , nothing is to be seen but intoxica- tion . Soon ...
Page 42
... army in which a King is known to be posted is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had ...
... army in which a King is known to be posted is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had ...
Page 43
... army for not yielding to the po- pular opinion ; but we cannot censure Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling which would have restrained us from committing the act would have led us , after it had been committed ...
... army for not yielding to the po- pular opinion ; but we cannot censure Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling which would have restrained us from committing the act would have led us , after it had been committed ...
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