Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 30
... conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high and of an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind , at the very crisis of the great conflict between Oromasdes ...
... conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high and of an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind , at the very crisis of the great conflict between Oromasdes ...
Pagina 31
... conduct . But we cannot disguise from ourselves that a large portion of his countrymen still think it unjustifiable . The civil war , indeed , has been more discussed , and is less understood , than any event in English history . The ...
... conduct . But we cannot disguise from ourselves that a large portion of his countrymen still think it unjustifiable . The civil war , indeed , has been more discussed , and is less understood , than any event in English history . The ...
Pagina 35
... conduct of Charles , from his accession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression and treachery . Let those who applaud the Revolution , and condemn the Rebellion , mention one act of James the ...
... conduct of Charles , from his accession to the meeting of the Long Parliament , had been a continued course of oppression and treachery . Let those who applaud the Revolution , and condemn the Rebellion , mention one act of James the ...
Pagina 36
... conduct of Charles with respect to the Petition of Right . The Lords and Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent ...
... conduct of Charles with respect to the Petition of Right . The Lords and Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent ...
Pagina 38
... conduct in the most important of all human relations ; and if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and ...
... conduct in the most important of all human relations ; and if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and ...
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