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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... favour- den have done , if he had possessed the powers ites destitute . He did not care to give them of Otway . The fact is , that he had a tendency what he could not give without measure . The to bombast , which , though subsequently ...
... favour- den have done , if he had possessed the powers ites destitute . He did not care to give them of Otway . The fact is , that he had a tendency what he could not give without measure . The to bombast , which , though subsequently ...
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... favour of Elizabeth , apply with much greater force to the case of her sister Mary . The Catholics did not , at the time of Eliza- beth's accession , rise in arms to seat a Pre- tender on her throne . But before Mary had given , or ...
... favour of Elizabeth , apply with much greater force to the case of her sister Mary . The Catholics did not , at the time of Eliza- beth's accession , rise in arms to seat a Pre- tender on her throne . But before Mary had given , or ...
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