Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Том 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 |
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... means intend to underrate or to palliate the crimes and excesses which , during the last genera- tion , were produced by the spirit of democracy . But , when we hear men zealous for the Protestant religion constantly represent the ...
... means intend to underrate or to palliate the crimes and excesses which , during the last genera- tion , were produced by the spirit of democracy . But , when we hear men zealous for the Protestant religion constantly represent the ...
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... means satisfactory . The power of the crown , it is said , was then at its height , and was in fact despotic . This solution , we own , seems to us to be no solution at all . It has long been the fashion , a fashion introduced by Mr ...
... means satisfactory . The power of the crown , it is said , was then at its height , and was in fact despotic . This solution , we own , seems to us to be no solution at all . It has long been the fashion , a fashion introduced by Mr ...
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... means of proclamations . She imprisoned her sub- jects without bringing them to a legal trial . Torture was often employed , in defiance of the laws of Eng- land , for the purpose of extorting confessions from those who were shut up in ...
... means of proclamations . She imprisoned her sub- jects without bringing them to a legal trial . Torture was often employed , in defiance of the laws of Eng- land , for the purpose of extorting confessions from those who were shut up in ...
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... means , and the only means , which she had at her command for carrying her de- crees into execution , for resisting foreign enemies , and for crushing domestic treason . There was not a ward in the city , there was not a hundred in any ...
... means , and the only means , which she had at her command for carrying her de- crees into execution , for resisting foreign enemies , and for crushing domestic treason . There was not a ward in the city , there was not a hundred in any ...
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... means to be misgoverned with impunity . The English in the sixteenth century were , beyond all doubt , a free people . They had not , indeed , the outward show of freedom ; but they had the reality . They had not as good a constitution ...
... means to be misgoverned with impunity . The English in the sixteenth century were , beyond all doubt , a free people . They had not , indeed , the outward show of freedom ; but they had the reality . They had not as good a constitution ...
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Стр. 357 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.
Стр. 209 - We find in it the diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language. It would be more in request at the circulating libraries than the last novel.
Стр. 371 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.