Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 32
... least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession ...
... least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession ...
Pagina 38
... least governed them after the example of his predecessors . If he violated their privileges , it was because those privileges had not been ac- curately defined . No act of oppression has ever been imputed to him which has not a parallel ...
... least governed them after the example of his predecessors . If he violated their privileges , it was because those privileges had not been ac- curately defined . No act of oppression has ever been imputed to him which has not a parallel ...
Pagina 40
... least produces no pernicious effects on the intellectual and moral character of a nation . We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was ...
... least produces no pernicious effects on the intellectual and moral character of a nation . We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was ...
Pagina 56
... But the glory of the battle which he fought for the species of freedom which is the most valuable , and which was then the least understood , the freedom of the Thousands and tens of human mind , is all his 56 MILTON .
... But the glory of the battle which he fought for the species of freedom which is the most valuable , and which was then the least understood , the freedom of the Thousands and tens of human mind , is all his 56 MILTON .
Pagina 67
... least comparative security and repose . Even in those regions where the sanguinary Lombards had fixed their monarchy , there was incomparably more of wealth , of informa- tion , of physical comfort , and of social order , than could be ...
... least comparative security and repose . Even in those regions where the sanguinary Lombards had fixed their monarchy , there was incomparably more of wealth , of informa- tion , of physical comfort , and of social order , than could be ...
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