Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 19
... never thought of taking the measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to ...
... never thought of taking the measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to ...
Pagina 33
... never look at them for any other purpose than in order to find in them some excuse for existing abuses . In every venerable precedent they pass by what is essential , and take only what is accidental : they keep out of sight what is ...
... never look at them for any other purpose than in order to find in them some excuse for existing abuses . In every venerable precedent they pass by what is essential , and take only what is accidental : they keep out of sight what is ...
Pagina 36
... never redeemed . Here , indeed , the Long Parliament stands on still stronger ground than the Convention of 1688. No action of James can be compared to the conduct of Charles with respect to the Petition of Right . The Lords and Commons ...
... never redeemed . Here , indeed , the Long Parliament stands on still stronger ground than the Convention of 1688. No action of James can be compared to the conduct of Charles with respect to the Petition of Right . The Lords and Commons ...
Pagina 43
... never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne , who seduced his army , who alienated his friends , who first im- prisoned him in his ...
... never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne , who seduced his army , who alienated his friends , who first im- prisoned him in his ...
Pagina 45
... never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first fought sincerely and manfully for the Parliament , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few ...
... never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first fought sincerely and manfully for the Parliament , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few ...
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