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... ment , a lock of his hair , or a drop of his blood . On the same principle , we intend to take ad- vantage of the late interesting discovery , and , while this memorial of a great and good man is still in the hands of all , to say ...
... ment , a lock of his hair , or a drop of his blood . On the same principle , we intend to take ad- vantage of the late interesting discovery , and , while this memorial of a great and good man is still in the hands of all , to say ...
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... ment , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few members , who remained after so many deaths , secessions , We do not , we repeat , approve of the execu ...
... ment , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few members , who remained after so many deaths , secessions , We do not , we repeat , approve of the execu ...
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... ment next to impossible . The choice lay , not Most of the remarks which we have hitherto between Cromwell and liberty , but between made on the public character of Milton , apply Cromwell and the Stuarts . That Milton chose to him only ...
... ment next to impossible . The choice lay , not Most of the remarks which we have hitherto between Cromwell and liberty , but between made on the public character of Milton , apply Cromwell and the Stuarts . That Milton chose to him only ...
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... ment . The former was dedicated to the young Lorenzo de Medici . This circumstance seems to have disgusted the contemporaries of the writer far more than the doctrines which have rendered the name of the work odious in later times . It ...
... ment . The former was dedicated to the young Lorenzo de Medici . This circumstance seems to have disgusted the contemporaries of the writer far more than the doctrines which have rendered the name of the work odious in later times . It ...
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... ment during which the king held his head under the water . It is deserving of remark , that at the time of which we speak , the plays even of men not eminently distinguished by genius - such , for example , as Jonson - were far superior ...
... ment during which the king held his head under the water . It is deserving of remark , that at the time of which we speak , the plays even of men not eminently distinguished by genius - such , for example , as Jonson - were far superior ...
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