Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... army , and a national debt , to the rule , however restricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The Long Parliament acted on the same principle , and is entitled to the same praise . They could not trust the king . He had no doubt passed ...
... army , and a national debt , to the rule , however restricted , of a tried and proved tyrant . The Long Parliament acted on the same principle , and is entitled to the same praise . They could not trust the king . He had no doubt passed ...
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... 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 , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession 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 , enriched by the public plunder , taking possession of the ...
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... army en- camped on the Rhine or the Xeres . It is said that , when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to in- dulge without restraint in such a rare and expensive luxury , nothing is to be seen but intoxication ...
... army en- camped on the Rhine or the Xeres . It is said that , when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to in- dulge without restraint in such a rare and expensive luxury , nothing is to be seen but intoxication ...
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... army in which a king is known to be posted , is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had ...
... army in which a king is known to be posted , is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had ...
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... army for not yield- ing to the popular opinion : but we cannot censure_Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling , which would have restrained us from committing the act , would nave led us , after it had been ...
... army for not yield- ing to the popular opinion : but we cannot censure_Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling , which would have restrained us from committing the act , would nave led us , after it had been ...
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