Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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Pagina 41
... Parliamentary power , to investigate and bring forth to the world every circumstance of such a malady as is ever held sacred to secrecy in the most private families ! How indignant we all feel here , no words can say . " It is proper to ...
... Parliamentary power , to investigate and bring forth to the world every circumstance of such a malady as is ever held sacred to secrecy in the most private families ! How indignant we all feel here , no words can say . " It is proper to ...
Pagina 81
... parliamentary business . It is written that the ingenious person , who undertook to instruct Rasselas , prince of Abyssinia , in the art of flying , ascended an eminence , waved his wings , sprang into the air , and instantly dropped ...
... parliamentary business . It is written that the ingenious person , who undertook to instruct Rasselas , prince of Abyssinia , in the art of flying , ascended an eminence , waved his wings , sprang into the air , and instantly dropped ...
Pagina 82
... Parliament had sat only two months in eight years . Now the press was free , and had begun to exercise unprecedented influence on the public mind . Parliament met annually and sat long . The chief power in the State had passed to the ...
... Parliament had sat only two months in eight years . Now the press was free , and had begun to exercise unprecedented influence on the public mind . Parliament met annually and sat long . The chief power in the State had passed to the ...
Pagina 105
... Marlborough , was unsuccessful . The time was not yet . The Captain General was at the height of popularity and glory . The Low Church party had a majority in Parliament . The country squires LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON . 105.
... Marlborough , was unsuccessful . The time was not yet . The Captain General was at the height of popularity and glory . The Low Church party had a majority in Parliament . The country squires LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON . 105.
Pagina 106
... Parliament . The country squires and rectors , though occasionally uttering a savage growl , were for the most part in a state of torpor , which lasted till they were roused into activity , and indeed into madness , by the prosecution ...
... Parliament . The country squires and rectors , though occasionally uttering a savage growl , were for the most part in a state of torpor , which lasted till they were roused into activity , and indeed into madness , by the prosecution ...
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