Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 34
... passed without some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly violated ; arbitrary judgments , exorbitant fines , and unwarranted imprisonments , were grievances of daily occurrence . If these ...
... passed without some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly violated ; arbitrary judgments , exorbitant fines , and unwarranted imprisonments , were grievances of daily occurrence . If these ...
Page 35
... passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive prero- gatives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no tie ...
... passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not break them ? He had renounced oppressive prero- gatives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no tie ...
Page 50
... passed away . Events which short - sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes , had been ordained on his account . For his sake empires had risen , and flourished , and decayed . For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by ...
... passed away . Events which short - sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes , had been ordained on his account . For his sake empires had risen , and flourished , and decayed . For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by ...
Page 57
... passed on to other subjects , and abandoned prelacy to the crowd of writers who now hastened to insult a falling party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing the torch of truth into those dark and infected recesses ...
... passed on to other subjects , and abandoned prelacy to the crowd of writers who now hastened to insult a falling party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing the torch of truth into those dark and infected recesses ...
Page 108
... passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay undistinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest statesman of Florence . In the Church of Santa Croce a monu- ment ...
... passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay undistinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest statesman of Florence . In the Church of Santa Croce a monu- ment ...
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