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Page 12
... hundred times pawned - and never redeemed . Here , indeed , the Long Parliament stands on still stronger ground than the Convention of 1088. No action of James can be compared for wickedness and impudence to the conduct of Charles with ...
... hundred times pawned - and never redeemed . Here , indeed , the Long Parliament stands on still stronger ground than the Convention of 1088. No action of James can be compared for wickedness and impudence to the conduct of Charles with ...
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... hundred studied arithmetic ; six hundred received a learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the ...
... hundred studied arithmetic ; six hundred received a learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the ...
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... hundred thousand people . But there can be no doubt that he was a much less lepraved man thar Wild . The deed for which Mrs. Brownrigg was hanged sinks into nothing , when compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to ...
... hundred thousand people . But there can be no doubt that he was a much less lepraved man thar Wild . The deed for which Mrs. Brownrigg was hanged sinks into nothing , when compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to ...
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... hundred cantos . He does not venture to times Mr. Hate - good and Mr. Love - lust ; and walk in the same line with the bombastic Sta- then again Prudence , Piety , and Charity . tius . His admiration of Virgil is absolute idolatry . If ...
... hundred cantos . He does not venture to times Mr. Hate - good and Mr. Love - lust ; and walk in the same line with the bombastic Sta- then again Prudence , Piety , and Charity . tius . His admiration of Virgil is absolute idolatry . If ...
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... hundred years stories about China and Bantam , which ough not to have imposed on an old nurse , were gravely laid down as foundations of po- litical theories by eminent philosophers . What the time of the Crusades is to us , the genera ...
... hundred years stories about China and Bantam , which ough not to have imposed on an old nurse , were gravely laid down as foundations of po- litical theories by eminent philosophers . What the time of the Crusades is to us , the genera ...
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