Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 38
... crimes and follies to which public commotions necessarily give birth . They bewail the unmerited fate of Strafford . They execrate the lawless violence of the army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals ...
... crimes and follies to which public commotions necessarily give birth . They bewail the unmerited fate of Strafford . They execrate the lawless violence of the army . They laugh at the Scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals ...
Page 40
... crimes , conflicting errors , scepticism on points the most clear , dogmatism on points the most myste- rious . It is just at this crisis that its enemies love to exhibit it . They pull down the scaffolding from the half - finished ...
... crimes , conflicting errors , scepticism on points the most clear , dogmatism on points the most myste- rious . It is just at this crisis that its enemies love to exhibit it . They pull down the scaffolding from the half - finished ...
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... every fawning dean . In every high place , worship was paid to Charles and James , Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children . Crime succeeded 46 MILTON .
... every fawning dean . In every high place , worship was paid to Charles and James , Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children . Crime succeeded 46 MILTON .
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In Five Volumes Thomas Babington Macaulay. blood of her best and bravest children . Crime succeeded to crime , and disgrace to disgrace , till the race , accursed of God and man , was a second time driven forth , to wander on the face of ...
In Five Volumes Thomas Babington Macaulay. blood of her best and bravest children . Crime succeeded to crime , and disgrace to disgrace , till the race , accursed of God and man , was a second time driven forth , to wander on the face of ...
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... crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . Another remarks that since it was translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to ...
... crime . One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume . Another remarks that since it was translated into Turkish , the Sultans have been more addicted than formerly to ...
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