The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 121A. Constable, 1865 |
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... successful . This sort of talk fell in alike with Norman and with English feeling . To lay all the blame on the King , a King too , it might now be said , wrongfully chosen to the pre- judice of the right royal line , was more consoling ...
... successful . This sort of talk fell in alike with Norman and with English feeling . To lay all the blame on the King , a King too , it might now be said , wrongfully chosen to the pre- judice of the right royal line , was more consoling ...
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... successes were accomplished , as far as we can see , with much less of cruelty or oppression than we might have looked for in so ruthless an age . As a man , his cha- racter was singularly stainless ; in a most profligate generation he ...
... successes were accomplished , as far as we can see , with much less of cruelty or oppression than we might have looked for in so ruthless an age . As a man , his cha- racter was singularly stainless ; in a most profligate generation he ...
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... success of William . And the promotion of foreign earls and bishops was only the con- tinuation to a greater extent of a system to which men had been already used under King Eadward . They knew that a stranger was not necessarily an ...
... success of William . And the promotion of foreign earls and bishops was only the con- tinuation to a greater extent of a system to which men had been already used under King Eadward . They knew that a stranger was not necessarily an ...
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... success , or of arguing out with him those points on which ve still hold his views to be un- founded . We have endeavoured to treat the dead writer as we should have treated hin had he still been spared to us . We have endeavoured to ...
... success , or of arguing out with him those points on which ve still hold his views to be un- founded . We have endeavoured to treat the dead writer as we should have treated hin had he still been spared to us . We have endeavoured to ...
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... successful according as it deals with language as a thing essentially human , investigating therefore the forms of thought which characterise a people or a period , tracing the idiosyn- crasies of a writer , and proceeding to estimate ...
... successful according as it deals with language as a thing essentially human , investigating therefore the forms of thought which characterise a people or a period , tracing the idiosyn- crasies of a writer , and proceeding to estimate ...
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Page 162 - ... that part of the said body politic called the spiritualty, now being usually called the English Church, which always hath been reputed, and also found of that sort, that both for knowledge, integrity, and sufficiency of number, it hath been always thought, and is also at this hour sufficient, and meet of itself, without the intermeddling of any exterior person or persons, to declare and determine all such doubts, and to administer all such offices and duties as to their rooms spiritual doth appertain...