The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Količina 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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Stran 1
... Scotland prior to the Revolution . According to Mr. Napier , all previous histories of these times have been written wrong : Charles I. was a saintly martyr , Charles II . a perfect gentle- man , James II . a good - natured , kindly man ...
... Scotland prior to the Revolution . According to Mr. Napier , all previous histories of these times have been written wrong : Charles I. was a saintly martyr , Charles II . a perfect gentle- man , James II . a good - natured , kindly man ...
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... Scotland . took a curious way of showing his contempt for the Covenanters ; he carefully edited and published two high - flying covenanting manuscripts . The first was Kirkton's Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland ; ' and ...
... Scotland . took a curious way of showing his contempt for the Covenanters ; he carefully edited and published two high - flying covenanting manuscripts . The first was Kirkton's Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland ; ' and ...
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... Scotland in his time , and Claverhouse spelled neither better nor worse than his contemporaries . After finishing his university education , which appears to have been at an age much riper than was or is usual in Scotland , he repaired ...
... Scotland in his time , and Claverhouse spelled neither better nor worse than his contemporaries . After finishing his university education , which appears to have been at an age much riper than was or is usual in Scotland , he repaired ...
Stran 5
... Scotland at the period of his return . The Scotland had never renounced , as England had , its allegiance to the Stuarts . On the death of Charles I. it proclaimed Charles II . , and paid for its loyalty by the disastrous defeats of ...
... Scotland at the period of his return . The Scotland had never renounced , as England had , its allegiance to the Stuarts . On the death of Charles I. it proclaimed Charles II . , and paid for its loyalty by the disastrous defeats of ...
Stran 6
... Scotland had scarcely a single minister left . The Royal Commissioner , the Primate , and the Privy Council were themselves aghast at the ruin they had wrought . 4 It was not so easy to supply the vacancies which had been made . Bishop ...
... Scotland had scarcely a single minister left . The Royal Commissioner , the Primate , and the Privy Council were themselves aghast at the ruin they had wrought . 4 It was not so easy to supply the vacancies which had been made . Bishop ...
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Stran 418 - The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the tories ; and the tories echoed every clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt.
Stran 413 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest - -young man I ever knew; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners; generous, and a despiser of money.
Stran 430 - Let us suppose in this, or in some other unfortunate country, an anti-minister, who thinks himself a person of so great and extensive parts, and of so many eminent qualifications, that he looks upon himself as the only person in the kingdom capable to conduct the public affairs of the nation...
Stran 429 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
Stran 342 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Stran 406 - But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.
Stran 432 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Stran 400 - The Life of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State in the reign of Queen Anne. By Thomas Macknight, author of the " History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke.
Stran 413 - I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for Sir William Temple because he might have been Secretary of State at fifty ; and here is a young fellow hardly thirty in that employment.
Stran 31 - I will not; I am one of Christ's children; let me go :' And then they returned her into the water, where she finished her warfare ; being a virgin martyr of eighteen years of age, suffering death for her refusing to swear the oath of abjuration, and hear the curats.