The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Količina 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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... cates who conducted their prosecution , the jury who tried them , the judges who condemned them , and indeed one half of the whole kingdom , to the same fate . The Parliament 1863 . 5 Napier's Memorials of Claverhouse .
... cates who conducted their prosecution , the jury who tried them , the judges who condemned them , and indeed one half of the whole kingdom , to the same fate . The Parliament 1863 . 5 Napier's Memorials of Claverhouse .
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Or Critical Journal. whole kingdom , to the same fate . The Parliament passed the famous Recissory Act , and thus destroyed by one stroke of the pen the whole legislation of the last twenty years . That period was to be a blank in the ...
Or Critical Journal. whole kingdom , to the same fate . The Parliament passed the famous Recissory Act , and thus destroyed by one stroke of the pen the whole legislation of the last twenty years . That period was to be a blank in the ...
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... whole heart . May it therefore please your Grace , and remanent Lords , as said is , to take my case to your serious consideration , being about the age of three score years and ten , and to take pity and compassion on me , and recall ...
... whole heart . May it therefore please your Grace , and remanent Lords , as said is , to take my case to your serious consideration , being about the age of three score years and ten , and to take pity and compassion on me , and recall ...
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... whole military life was spent in dispersing field - preachings , —no very heroic work ! He fought two battles ; in the first he was disgracefully beaten by a handful of undisciplined but determined Covenanters at Drumclog , and was ...
... whole military life was spent in dispersing field - preachings , —no very heroic work ! He fought two battles ; in the first he was disgracefully beaten by a handful of undisciplined but determined Covenanters at Drumclog , and was ...
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... whole history and condition of Europe from the days of Cæsar to those of Charlemagne , if not for some time after- wards , will have been erected by the busy hive of Druidical antiquaries . To pass over any one of these traces would ...
... whole history and condition of Europe from the days of Cæsar to those of Charlemagne , if not for some time after- wards , will have been erected by the busy hive of Druidical antiquaries . To pass over any one of these traces would ...
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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.