Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1853 - 744 páginas |
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... favour of the Revolution of 1688 , may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the great rebellion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better ...
... favour of the Revolution of 1688 , may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the great rebellion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better ...
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... favour ; and , confi- dent of that favour , they despised all the ac- complishments and all the dignities of the world . If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets , they were deeply read in the oracles of God ...
... favour ; and , confi- dent of that favour , they despised all the ac- complishments and all the dignities of the world . If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets , they were deeply read in the oracles of God ...
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... favour and on their great personal qualities . Such a work would exhibit to us the real nature of that species of sovereignty , so singular and so often misunder- stood , which the Greeks denominated tyranny , and which modified in some ...
... favour and on their great personal qualities . Such a work would exhibit to us the real nature of that species of sovereignty , so singular and so often misunder- stood , which the Greeks denominated tyranny , and which modified in some ...
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... favour . able specimen . What Lord Dorset observed to Edward Howard , might have been address- ed to almost all his contemporaries : - " As skilful divers to the bottom fall , English distinguishes him still more from the other writers ...
... favour . able specimen . What Lord Dorset observed to Edward Howard , might have been address- ed to almost all his contemporaries : - " As skilful divers to the bottom fall , English distinguishes him still more from the other writers ...
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... favour of wit ; he tolerated even tameness for the sake of the correctness which was its concomitant . It was probably to this turn of mind , rather than to the more disgraceful causes which Johnson has assigned , that we are to ...
... favour of wit ; he tolerated even tameness for the sake of the correctness which was its concomitant . It was probably to this turn of mind , rather than to the more disgraceful causes which Johnson has assigned , that we are to ...
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