The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 184A. Constable, 1896 |
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... political cataclysm which was approaching , but none the less destined to play a most important part in the story of the age that was immediately to succeed that world - shaking event . 6 A German historian , quoted by Mr. Wilfrid Ward ...
... political cataclysm which was approaching , but none the less destined to play a most important part in the story of the age that was immediately to succeed that world - shaking event . 6 A German historian , quoted by Mr. Wilfrid Ward ...
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... politicians of the Left , amongst whom he took his seat , he remained constant to his political principles . I die , ' he said , when his end was near at hand , a penitent Catholic , but an impenitent Liberal . ' • The political orator ...
... politicians of the Left , amongst whom he took his seat , he remained constant to his political principles . I die , ' he said , when his end was near at hand , a penitent Catholic , but an impenitent Liberal . ' • The political orator ...
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... political and social questions . Mr. Lecky , in his great work on Democracy and Liberty , ' holds the balance very fairly between the clerical and anti - clerical parties . Nor is it at all hard to find English books in which the views ...
... political and social questions . Mr. Lecky , in his great work on Democracy and Liberty , ' holds the balance very fairly between the clerical and anti - clerical parties . Nor is it at all hard to find English books in which the views ...
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... political aspirations of the Italian people . They did so , and hence it arises that for more than a whole generation no writer has , so far as we are aware , arisen in the Peninsula who has done anything of much importance in the ...
... political aspirations of the Italian people . They did so , and hence it arises that for more than a whole generation no writer has , so far as we are aware , arisen in the Peninsula who has done anything of much importance in the ...
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... political as with the religious reaction . La Motte - Fouqué was at first much more interested in the chivalry than in the re- ligion of the middle ages ; but his later works assuredly exercised in a greater degree , though in a less ...
... political as with the religious reaction . La Motte - Fouqué was at first much more interested in the chivalry than in the re- ligion of the middle ages ; but his later works assuredly exercised in a greater degree , though in a less ...
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