Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 35
... passed with- out some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly violated ; arbitrary judgments , exorbitant fines , and unwar- ranted imprisonments , were grievances of daily oc- currence . If ...
... passed with- out some unconstitutional attack on the freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly violated ; arbitrary judgments , exorbitant fines , and unwar- ranted imprisonments , were grievances of daily oc- currence . If ...
Pagina 36
... passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not . break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no tie ...
... passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not . break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where was the security that he would not resume them ? The nation had to deal with a man whom no tie ...
Pagina 51
... passed away . Events which short - sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes , had been ordained on his account . For his sake empires had risen , and flourished , and decayed . For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by ...
... passed away . Events which short - sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes , had been ordained on his account . For his sake empires had risen , and flourished , and decayed . For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by ...
Pagina 58
... passed on to other subjects , and abandoned prelacy to the crowd of writers who now hastened to insult a falling party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing the torch of truth into those dark and infected recesses ...
... passed on to other subjects , and abandoned prelacy to the crowd of writers who now hastened to insult a falling party . There is no more hazardous enterprise than that of bearing the torch of truth into those dark and infected recesses ...
Pagina 111
... passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay undistinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest statesman of Florence . In the church of Santa Croce a monument was ...
... passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay undistinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest statesman of Florence . In the church of Santa Croce a monument was ...
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