Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. Of those principles , then struggling for their in- fant existence , Milton was the most devoted and eloquent literary champion . We need not say how much we admire his public conduct . But we ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. Of those principles , then struggling for their in- fant existence , Milton was the most devoted and eloquent literary champion . We need not say how much we admire his public conduct . But we ...
Pagina 32
... principles from which the claim of any government to the obedience of its subjects is to be deduced . We are entitled to that vantage ground ; but we will relinquish it . We are , on this point , so confident of superiority , that we ...
... principles from which the claim of any government to the obedience of its subjects is to be deduced . We are entitled to that vantage ground ; but we will relinquish it . We are , on this point , so confident of superiority , that we ...
Pagina 36
... principle , and is en- titled to the same praise . They could not trust the King . He had no doubt passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not . break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where ...
... principle , and is en- titled to the same praise . They could not trust the King . He had no doubt passed salutary laws ; but what assurance was there that he would not . break them ? He had renounced oppressive prerogatives ; but where ...
Pagina 42
... principles . We will not appeal to them now . We recur again to the parallel case of the Revolution . What essential distinction can be drawn between the execution of the father and the deposition of the son ? What constitutional maxim ...
... principles . We will not appeal to them now . We recur again to the parallel case of the Revolution . What essential distinction can be drawn between the execution of the father and the deposition of the son ? What constitutional maxim ...
Pagina 45
... principles of all free governments , must , if suffered to remain un- answered , have produced a most pernicious effect on the public mind . We wish to add a few words relative to another subject , on which the enemies of Milton delight ...
... principles of all free governments , must , if suffered to remain un- answered , have produced a most pernicious effect on the public mind . We wish to add a few words relative to another subject , on which the enemies of Milton delight ...
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