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Throughout the volume are discernible the traces of a powerful and independent mind , emancipated from the influ- ence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . He professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his ...
Throughout the volume are discernible the traces of a powerful and independent mind , emancipated from the influ- ence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . He professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his ...
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The authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin ...
The authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin ...
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... a complete subjection of reason to authority , a weak prefer ence of form to substance , a childish passion for mummeries , an idolatrous veneration for the priestly character , and , above all , a stupid and ferocious intolerance .
... a complete subjection of reason to authority , a weak prefer ence of form to substance , a childish passion for mummeries , an idolatrous veneration for the priestly character , and , above all , a stupid and ferocious intolerance .
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He gave the parliament a voice in the appointment of ministers , and left to it the whole legislative authority - not even reserving to himself a veto on its enact- ments . And he did not require that the chief - magistracy should be ...
He gave the parliament a voice in the appointment of ministers , and left to it the whole legislative authority - not even reserving to himself a veto on its enact- ments . And he did not require that the chief - magistracy should be ...
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... was to be dreaded from a second Protector , unless he were also a second Oliver Cromwell . The events which followed his decease are the most complete vindication of those who ex- erted themselves to uphold his authority .
... was to be dreaded from a second Protector , unless he were also a second Oliver Cromwell . The events which followed his decease are the most complete vindication of those who ex- erted themselves to uphold his authority .
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| Título | Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Thomas Carlyle Modern British essayists |
| Autor | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
| Editor | D. Appleton, 1860 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 24 Mayo 2017 |
| Largo | 568 páginas |
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