Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... England upwards of three hundred thousand marks , at a time when the mark contained more silver than fifty shillings of the present day , and when the value of silver was more than quadruple of what it now is . The city and its environs ...
... England upwards of three hundred thousand marks , at a time when the mark contained more silver than fifty shillings of the present day , and when the value of silver was more than quadruple of what it now is . The city and its environs ...
Pagina 73
... England and France present us only with a frightful spectacle of poverty , barbarity , and ignorance . From the oppressions of illiterate masters , and the sufferings of a degraded peasantry , it is delightful to turn to the opulent and ...
... England and France present us only with a frightful spectacle of poverty , barbarity , and ignorance . From the oppressions of illiterate masters , and the sufferings of a degraded peasantry , it is delightful to turn to the opulent and ...
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... England , from the Accession of Henry VII . to the Death of George II . By HENRY HALLAM . In 2 vols . 1827 . HISTORY , at least in its state of ideal perfection , is a compound of poetry and philosophy . It impresses general truths on ...
... England , from the Accession of Henry VII . to the Death of George II . By HENRY HALLAM . In 2 vols . 1827 . HISTORY , at least in its state of ideal perfection , is a compound of poetry and philosophy . It impresses general truths on ...
Pagina 114
... England . Sir Walter Scott gives us a novel ; Mr. Hallam a critical and argumentative history . Both are occupied with the same matter . But the former looks at it with the eye of a sculptor . His intention is to give an express and ...
... England . Sir Walter Scott gives us a novel ; Mr. Hallam a critical and argumentative history . Both are occupied with the same matter . But the former looks at it with the eye of a sculptor . His intention is to give an express and ...
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... England , there is scarcely one who would not say that a man who should leave his country and friends to preach the Gospel among savages , and who should , after labouring indefatigably without any hope of reward , terminate his life by ...
... England , there is scarcely one who would not say that a man who should leave his country and friends to preach the Gospel among savages , and who should , after labouring indefatigably without any hope of reward , terminate his life by ...
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