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Page 7
... called poetry , than a bale of canvass and a box of colours are to be called a painting . We will not take upon ourselves the invi- dious office of settling precedency between two such writers . Each in his own department is ...
... called poetry , than a bale of canvass and a box of colours are to be called a painting . We will not take upon ourselves the invi- dious office of settling precedency between two such writers . Each in his own department is ...
Page 18
... called upon Cromwell to break the secular chain , and to save free conscience from the paw of the Presbyterian wolf . With a view to the same great object , he attacked the licensing system in that sublime treatise which every statesman ...
... called upon Cromwell to break the secular chain , and to save free conscience from the paw of the Presbyterian wolf . With a view to the same great object , he attacked the licensing system in that sublime treatise which every statesman ...
Page 20
... called forth such severe reprehensions no exception appears to have been taken . The But , we believe , there is a schism on this subject among cry against them was first raised beyond the Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick , Tho ' he ...
... called forth such severe reprehensions no exception appears to have been taken . The But , we believe , there is a schism on this subject among cry against them was first raised beyond the Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick , Tho ' he ...
Page 21
... called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms which carried terror into the palaces and camps of the proudest sovereigns excited only their contempt . When Alexander commanded our Henry the Second to ...
... called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms which carried terror into the palaces and camps of the proudest sovereigns excited only their contempt . When Alexander commanded our Henry the Second to ...
Page 37
... called a new world into existence , and made all its sights and sounds familiar to the That critical discernment is not sufficient to make men poets is generally allowed . Why it should keep them from becoming poets , is not perhaps ...
... called a new world into existence , and made all its sights and sounds familiar to the That critical discernment is not sufficient to make men poets is generally allowed . Why it should keep them from becoming poets , is not perhaps ...
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