Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 46
... 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 .
... 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 .
Page 47
... England , at the time of which we are treating , abounded with fickle and selfish politicians , who transferred their support to every government . as it rose , who kissed the hand of the King in 1640 , and spat in his face in 1649 ...
... England , at the time of which we are treating , abounded with fickle and selfish politicians , who transferred their support to every government . as it rose , who kissed the hand of the King in 1640 , and spat in his face in 1649 ...
Page 48
... England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth , were no vulgar fanatics . Most of their absurdities were mere external badges , like the signs of freemasonry , or the dresses of friars . We regret that these badges were not ...
... England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth , were no vulgar fanatics . Most of their absurdities were mere external badges , like the signs of freemasonry , or the dresses of friars . We regret that these badges were not ...
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... England annually commemorate the preservation of the Three Estates . The Church of Rome has pronounced his works accursed things . Nor have our own countrymen been backward in testifying their opinion of his merits . Out of his surname ...
... England annually commemorate the preservation of the Three Estates . The Church of Rome has pronounced his works accursed things . Nor have our own countrymen been backward in testifying their opinion of his merits . Out of his surname ...
Page 68
... England and Ireland , two centuries ago , yielded annually to Elizabeth . The manufacture of wool alone employed two hundred factories and thirty thousand workmen . The cloth annually produced sold , at an average , for twelve hundred ...
... England and Ireland , two centuries ago , yielded annually to Elizabeth . The manufacture of wool alone employed two hundred factories and thirty thousand workmen . The cloth annually produced sold , at an average , for twelve hundred ...
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