The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 81A. Constable, 1845 |
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... scenes of revolutionary movement ; and where the sovereign owes his power to conquest , or to foreign support , or to promises treacherously evaded or shamelessly broken . But this state of mutual alarm , suspicion , and precaution , is ...
... scenes of revolutionary movement ; and where the sovereign owes his power to conquest , or to foreign support , or to promises treacherously evaded or shamelessly broken . But this state of mutual alarm , suspicion , and precaution , is ...
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... scenes of violence and bloodshed . The col- lectors and the inhabitants both believed that the government would protect its officers . The collectors tried to force their way into the houses , the inhabitants to repel them , and the con ...
... scenes of violence and bloodshed . The col- lectors and the inhabitants both believed that the government would protect its officers . The collectors tried to force their way into the houses , the inhabitants to repel them , and the con ...
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... scene of license , threw open to him , without further reserve , his own mad circle of dissipation and forgetful- ness . It was entered eagerly . 6 In one of his later writings , he described this time ; his credit gone , his pride ...
... scene of license , threw open to him , without further reserve , his own mad circle of dissipation and forgetful- ness . It was entered eagerly . 6 In one of his later writings , he described this time ; his credit gone , his pride ...
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... scene for which I did immediately beg your pardon , and did attribute it to my acci- dentally seeing Mr Churchill in the pit , with great truth ; it ⚫ rendering me confused and unmindful of my business . ' Garrick might have been more ...
... scene for which I did immediately beg your pardon , and did attribute it to my acci- dentally seeing Mr Churchill in the pit , with great truth ; it ⚫ rendering me confused and unmindful of my business . ' Garrick might have been more ...
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... scenes of gaiety into which he is now said to have recklessly entered , so much as with the friend by whose side he entered them . It is indeed mournfully confessed , in the opening of the Epistle to that friend , which was his third ...
... scenes of gaiety into which he is now said to have recklessly entered , so much as with the friend by whose side he entered them . It is indeed mournfully confessed , in the opening of the Epistle to that friend , which was his third ...
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