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... respect- ing the nature of the Deity , the eternity of mat- ter , and the observation of the Sabbath , might , we think , have caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far ...
... respect- ing the nature of the Deity , the eternity of mat- ter , and the observation of the Sabbath , might , we think , have caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far ...
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... respect differs from that of Dante , as the adventures of Amidas differ from those of Gulliver . The author of Amidas would have made his book ridiculous if he had introduced those minute particulars which give such a charm to the work ...
... respect differs from that of Dante , as the adventures of Amidas differ from those of Gulliver . The author of Amidas would have made his book ridiculous if he had introduced those minute particulars which give such a charm to the work ...
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... respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a papist ; we say in name and profession , because both Charles himself and ...
... respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a papist ; we say in name and profession , because both Charles himself and ...
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... respect to the Petition of Right . The lords and commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits ... respecting a topic on which the defenders of Charles are fond of dwelling . If , they say , he governed his people ...
... respect to the Petition of Right . The lords and commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits ... respecting a topic on which the defenders of Charles are fond of dwelling . If , they say , he governed his people ...
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... respect the hardihood with which he maintained them . He , in general , left to others the credit of expounding and de- fending the popular parts of his religious and political creed . He took his own stand upon those which the great ...
... respect the hardihood with which he maintained them . He , in general , left to others the credit of expounding and de- fending the popular parts of his religious and political creed . He took his own stand upon those which the great ...
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