The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Količina 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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... living authors in his rich vocabulary of complimentary epithets . As Mr. Napier differs from all previous historians of these times regarding historic truth , so does he differ from all previous bookmakers in the art of making his book ...
... living authors in his rich vocabulary of complimentary epithets . As Mr. Napier differs from all previous historians of these times regarding historic truth , so does he differ from all previous bookmakers in the art of making his book ...
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... living under the benign sway of the Stuarts . brave action , ' says the biographer , was performed in an evil ' hour for himself and his native monarchs . Had it not been for his luckless aid , the persecutor of his family , the evil ...
... living under the benign sway of the Stuarts . brave action , ' says the biographer , was performed in an evil ' hour for himself and his native monarchs . Had it not been for his luckless aid , the persecutor of his family , the evil ...
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... living in Edinburgh had not entered the event in his diary ? But Mr. Napier has another negative witness - Sir George Mackenzie , of Rosehaugh , the Lord Advocate of Scotland at the time the execution is said to have taken place . In ...
... living in Edinburgh had not entered the event in his diary ? But Mr. Napier has another negative witness - Sir George Mackenzie , of Rosehaugh , the Lord Advocate of Scotland at the time the execution is said to have taken place . In ...
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... living in quiet and full peace the greatest barbarities , in destroying them by hanging , shooting , and drowning , without any form of law , or respect had to age or sex . ' Mr. Napier does not seem to have been aware of 26 July ...
... living in quiet and full peace the greatest barbarities , in destroying them by hanging , shooting , and drowning , without any form of law , or respect had to age or sex . ' Mr. Napier does not seem to have been aware of 26 July ...
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... living that have all these fresh in their memory , they do attest the same . ' We know not what better evidence could be had than that here given . The Kirk Session is a judicatory of the Church of Scotland , and consists of those ...
... living that have all these fresh in their memory , they do attest the same . ' We know not what better evidence could be had than that here given . The Kirk Session is a judicatory of the Church of Scotland , and consists of those ...
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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.