The Quarterly Review, Volume 171William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1890 - English literature |
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... parties , and liberties . ' But he was the last mediæval king who attempted to rule England as a constitutional kingdom or commonwealth ; ' and if he had died in 1450 , he would have shared the fame of Edward VI . as one of the heroes ...
... parties , and liberties . ' But he was the last mediæval king who attempted to rule England as a constitutional kingdom or commonwealth ; ' and if he had died in 1450 , he would have shared the fame of Edward VI . as one of the heroes ...
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... party , yet no men had less in common . Montague did his best to set Church and Parliament on fire by his injudicious book , ' Appello Cæsarem . ' Hales's object all his life was ' to seek peace and ensue it ' ; the one had a stormy and ...
... party , yet no men had less in common . Montague did his best to set Church and Parliament on fire by his injudicious book , ' Appello Cæsarem . ' Hales's object all his life was ' to seek peace and ensue it ' ; the one had a stormy and ...
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... party of eighteen lads , who were too much behind the scenes to be afraid of him . It may fairly be doubted whether there was any man who was doing better work than this in any English school , except Butler of Shrewsbury . Few are the ...
... party of eighteen lads , who were too much behind the scenes to be afraid of him . It may fairly be doubted whether there was any man who was doing better work than this in any English school , except Butler of Shrewsbury . Few are the ...
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... party animosities still depreciate or defend his reputation ; an uneven struggle is to this day waged over his body , -a struggle in which his assail- ants were encouraged in detraction , and his defenders coerced into silence . In a ...
... party animosities still depreciate or defend his reputation ; an uneven struggle is to this day waged over his body , -a struggle in which his assail- ants were encouraged in detraction , and his defenders coerced into silence . In a ...
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... party under the leadership of Bennigsen . Political life was , however , distasteful to him , and he resigned his seat in 1867. The next two or three years were spent upon his beautifully - written biography of his friend Karl Mathy ...
... party under the leadership of Bennigsen . Political life was , however , distasteful to him , and he resigned his seat in 1867. The next two or three years were spent upon his beautifully - written biography of his friend Karl Mathy ...
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