Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Pagina 3
... authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his ...
... authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his ...
Pagina 10
... 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 styles as ...
... 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 styles as ...
Pagina 32
... authority , a weak preference of form to substance , a childish passion for mummeries , an idolatrous veneration for the priestly character , and , above all , a merciless intolerance . This , how- ever , we waive . We will concede that ...
... authority , a weak preference of form to substance , a childish passion for mummeries , an idolatrous veneration for the priestly character , and , above all , a merciless intolerance . This , how- ever , we waive . We will concede that ...
Pagina 45
... authority , not even reserving to himself a veto on its enactments ; and he did not require that the chief magistracy should be hereditary in his family . Thus far , we think , if the circumstances of the time and the opportunities ...
... authority , not even reserving to himself a veto on its enactments ; and he did not require that the chief magistracy should be hereditary in his family . Thus far , we think , if the circumstances of the time and the opportunities ...
Pagina 46
... authority under which they met , and that he was in danger of being deprived of the re- stricted power which was absolutely necessary to his personal safety , then , it must be acknowledged , he adopted a more arbitrary policy . Yet ...
... authority under which they met , and that he was in danger of being deprived of the re- stricted power which was absolutely necessary to his personal safety , then , it must be acknowledged , he adopted a more arbitrary policy . Yet ...
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