Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from ReviewsLongmans, Green, and Company [Spottiswoode and Company, Printers], 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... John Trevor , Speaker and First Commissioner of the Great Seal in 1690 , Burnet says : Being a Tory in principle , he undertook to manage that party , provided he was fur- nished with such sums of money as might purchase some votes and ...
... John Trevor , Speaker and First Commissioner of the Great Seal in 1690 , Burnet says : Being a Tory in principle , he undertook to manage that party , provided he was fur- nished with such sums of money as might purchase some votes and ...
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... John , the Solicitor - General , said : It is true , we give law to hares and deer , for they are beasts of chase , but it was never accounted either cruel or unfair to destroy foxes or wolves wherever they can be found : for they are ...
... John , the Solicitor - General , said : It is true , we give law to hares and deer , for they are beasts of chase , but it was never accounted either cruel or unfair to destroy foxes or wolves wherever they can be found : for they are ...
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... John Somers.1 We are compelled to take the oratorical reputation of each of them upon trust . Lord Campbell says of Somers , that although he sat in Parliament from the beginning of the year 1689 till his death , not much short of ...
... John Somers.1 We are compelled to take the oratorical reputation of each of them upon trust . Lord Campbell says of Somers , that although he sat in Parliament from the beginning of the year 1689 till his death , not much short of ...
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... John , who was surnamed Sans Terre , and was by his father , King Henry II . , made Lord of Ireland , which grant was confirmed by the Pope , who sent him a crown of peacocks ' feathers in derision of his power and the poverty of his ...
... John , who was surnamed Sans Terre , and was by his father , King Henry II . , made Lord of Ireland , which grant was confirmed by the Pope , who sent him a crown of peacocks ' feathers in derision of his power and the poverty of his ...
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... John's printed language , however , leave no doubt that he amply fulfilled in his own person what he requires in the genuine orator , when he lays down that ' eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring , and not ...
... John's printed language , however , leave no doubt that he amply fulfilled in his own person what he requires in the genuine orator , when he lays down that ' eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring , and not ...
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Página 1 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to...