Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... Strafford . They execrate the lawless violence of the army . They laugh at the scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their dis- tricts ; soldiers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts ...
... Strafford . They execrate the lawless violence of the army . They laugh at the scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their dis- tricts ; soldiers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts ...
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... Strafford is among paintings . Diversity , it is said , implies error ; truth is one , and admits of no degree . We answer , that this principle holds good only in abstract reasonings . When we talk of 152 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS ...
... Strafford is among paintings . Diversity , it is said , implies error ; truth is one , and admits of no degree . We answer , that this principle holds good only in abstract reasonings . When we talk of 152 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS ...
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... Strafford . A person , who should form his judgment from these pieces alone , would believe that London was set on fire by the Papists , and that Sir Edmondbury Godfrey was murdered for his religion . Yet these stories are now ...
... Strafford . A person , who should form his judgment from these pieces alone , would believe that London was set on fire by the Papists , and that Sir Edmondbury Godfrey was murdered for his religion . Yet these stories are now ...
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... Strafford was the first , and perhaps the greatest blow . The whole conduct of that celebrated man proved that he had formed a deliberate scheme to sub- vert the fundamental laws of England . Those parts of his correspondence which have ...
... Strafford was the first , and perhaps the greatest blow . The whole conduct of that celebrated man proved that he had formed a deliberate scheme to sub- vert the fundamental laws of England . Those parts of his correspondence which have ...
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... Strafford , however , recommends that , for taking the sense of a legal tribunal on a legal question , Hampden should be punished , and punished severely- " whipt , " says the insolent apostate , " whipt into his senses . If the rod ...
... Strafford , however , recommends that , for taking the sense of a legal tribunal on a legal question , Hampden should be punished , and punished severely- " whipt , " says the insolent apostate , " whipt into his senses . If the rod ...
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