The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ..., Volume 10G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1790 - English poetry |
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... period before us , to extol it beyond its real merit , or to depreciate the improvements of fucceeding ages . The first grand point that presents itself , in the literary hiftory of the reign of queen Elizabeth , is the state of re ...
... period before us , to extol it beyond its real merit , or to depreciate the improvements of fucceeding ages . The first grand point that presents itself , in the literary hiftory of the reign of queen Elizabeth , is the state of re ...
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There are perfons who maintain , that the divines of that period were fully competent to determine what the doctrines ... period concerning which we are treating . The zeal of of men in matters which they deemed infinitely important rofe ...
There are perfons who maintain , that the divines of that period were fully competent to determine what the doctrines ... period concerning which we are treating . The zeal of of men in matters which they deemed infinitely important rofe ...
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... period , have fubjected the propagators of them to the forfeiture of their lives . * The controverfy between the protestants and the Roman catholics continued to be the grand controverfy of the times . Though the latter were in a state ...
... period , have fubjected the propagators of them to the forfeiture of their lives . * The controverfy between the protestants and the Roman catholics continued to be the grand controverfy of the times . Though the latter were in a state ...
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... period in which they were published , and had no fmall degreee of influence upon the principles , manners , and conduct of fucceeding times . Amidft the undue ftrefs which the puritans laid upon the abolition of certain vest- ments ...
... period in which they were published , and had no fmall degreee of influence upon the principles , manners , and conduct of fucceeding times . Amidft the undue ftrefs which the puritans laid upon the abolition of certain vest- ments ...
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... period , for the moderation and candour with which religious controverfies fhould ever be conducted . Many of the theological writings of the age , and especially of those men who belonged to the perfecuted parties , were either ...
... period , for the moderation and candour with which religious controverfies fhould ever be conducted . Many of the theological writings of the age , and especially of those men who belonged to the perfecuted parties , were either ...
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