Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 45
... he had established , as set down in the Instrument of Government , and the Humble Petition and Advice , were excellent . His practice , it is true , too often departed from the theory of these institutions . MILTON . 45.
... he had established , as set down in the Instrument of Government , and the Humble Petition and Advice , were excellent . His practice , it is true , too often departed from the theory of these institutions . MILTON . 45.
Page 66
... established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms which carried terror into the palaces and camps of the proudest ...
... established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms which carried terror into the palaces and camps of the proudest ...
Page 68
... established . The operations of the com- mercial machine were facilitated by many useful and beautiful inventions . We doubt whether any country of Europe , our own excepted , have at the present time reached so high a point of wealth ...
... established . The operations of the com- mercial machine were facilitated by many useful and beautiful inventions . We doubt whether any country of Europe , our own excepted , have at the present time reached so high a point of wealth ...
Page 89
... established solely by the comparison of hands . Our suspicions are strengthened by the circumstance , that the same manuscript contained a de- scription of the plague of 1527 , which has also , in con- sequence , been added to the works ...
... established solely by the comparison of hands . Our suspicions are strengthened by the circumstance , that the same manuscript contained a de- scription of the plague of 1527 , which has also , in con- sequence , been added to the works ...
Page 103
... established by authentic testimony can be racked or chipped to suit his Procrustean hypothesis , he puts up with some monstrous fable about Siam , or Bantam , or Japan , told by writers compared with whom Lucian and Gulliver were ...
... established by authentic testimony can be racked or chipped to suit his Procrustean hypothesis , he puts up with some monstrous fable about Siam , or Bantam , or Japan , told by writers compared with whom Lucian and Gulliver were ...
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