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... sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies . " †Sonnet to Cromwell . The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy , Book II . We had intended to look more closely at These are 18 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies . " †Sonnet to Cromwell . The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy , Book II . We had intended to look more closely at These are 18 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... reason . ing , which , about this time , were applied with unprecedented success to every part of phi- losophy , would soon have conducted our ancestors to a sounder code of criticism . There were already strong signs of improve ' ment ...
... reason . ing , which , about this time , were applied with unprecedented success to every part of phi- losophy , would soon have conducted our ancestors to a sounder code of criticism . There were already strong signs of improve ' ment ...
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... reason is obvious . On no man did the age exercise so much influence . He was perhaps the greatest of those whom we have designated as the critical poets ; and his lite- rary career exhibited , on a reduced scale , the whole history of ...
... reason is obvious . On no man did the age exercise so much influence . He was perhaps the greatest of those whom we have designated as the critical poets ; and his lite- rary career exhibited , on a reduced scale , the whole history of ...
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... reason , to his diction and his versification . It was on this account , in all probability , that he so eagerly adopted , and so reluctantly abandoned , the practice of rhym- ing in his plays . What is unnatural appears less unnatural ...
... reason , to his diction and his versification . It was on this account , in all probability , that he so eagerly adopted , and so reluctantly abandoned , the practice of rhym- ing in his plays . What is unnatural appears less unnatural ...
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... reason over violent passion . We have two interlocutors , the one eager and impassioned , the other high , cool ... reasons ingeniously ; and , when he is disposed to be honest , correctly . But the theo- logical and political questions ...
... reason over violent passion . We have two interlocutors , the one eager and impassioned , the other high , cool ... reasons ingeniously ; and , when he is disposed to be honest , correctly . But the theo- logical and political questions ...
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