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Page 10
... favour of the Revolution of 1688 , may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the great rebellion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better ...
... favour of the Revolution of 1688 , may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the great rebellion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better ...
Page 16
... favour ; and , confi- dent of that favour , they despised all the ac- complishments and all the dignities of the world . If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets , they were deeply read in the oracles of God ...
... favour ; and , confi- dent of that favour , they despised all the ac- complishments and all the dignities of the world . If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets , they were deeply read in the oracles of God ...
Page 43
... favour . able specimen . What Lord Dorset observed to Edward Howard , might have been address- ed to almost all his contemporaries : — " As skilful divers to the bottom fall , Swifter than those who cannot swim at all ; So , in this way ...
... favour . able specimen . What Lord Dorset observed to Edward Howard , might have been address- ed to almost all his contemporaries : — " As skilful divers to the bottom fall , Swifter than those who cannot swim at all ; So , in this way ...
Page 44
... favour- able instance - a quatrain which Johnson has praised . Dryden is describing the sea - fight with the Dutch . " Amidst whole heaps of spices lights a ball ; And now their odours armed against them fly Some preciously by shattered ...
... favour- able instance - a quatrain which Johnson has praised . Dryden is describing the sea - fight with the Dutch . " Amidst whole heaps of spices lights a ball ; And now their odours armed against them fly Some preciously by shattered ...
Page 63
... favour be stated and enforced , and those which lead to an op- posite conclusion be omitted or lightly passed over , it may appear to be demonstrated . In every human character and transaction there is a mixture of good and evil ; -a ...
... favour be stated and enforced , and those which lead to an op- posite conclusion be omitted or lightly passed over , it may appear to be demonstrated . In every human character and transaction there is a mixture of good and evil ; -a ...
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