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Page 89
... taken under the patronage of any party , though every device has been used to blacken it , though to praise him would long have been a punishable crime , yet truth and merit at last prevail . Cowards , who had trembled at the very sound ...
... taken under the patronage of any party , though every device has been used to blacken it , though to praise him would long have been a punishable crime , yet truth and merit at last prevail . Cowards , who had trembled at the very sound ...
Page 90
... taken in arms against the government , and that it is not clear that they were not all so taken . In that case , Cromwell or his officers might , according to the usages of those un- happy times , have put them to the sword , or turned ...
... taken in arms against the government , and that it is not clear that they were not all so taken . In that case , Cromwell or his officers might , according to the usages of those un- happy times , have put them to the sword , or turned ...
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... taken in moral and political questions , his failure has the mass , stand far higher than his prose been complete and ignominious . On such works . The Laureate Odes , indeed , among occasions his writings are rescued from utter which ...
... taken in moral and political questions , his failure has the mass , stand far higher than his prose been complete and ignominious . On such works . The Laureate Odes , indeed , among occasions his writings are rescued from utter which ...
Page 104
... taken place . Nay , the rate of mortality in those three great capitals of the manufac- turing districts , is now considerably less than it was fifty years ago over England and Wales taken together , open country and all . We might with ...
... taken place . Nay , the rate of mortality in those three great capitals of the manufac- turing districts , is now considerably less than it was fifty years ago over England and Wales taken together , open country and all . We might with ...
Page 106
... taken by the tax - gatherer out of one man's pocket and put into another man's . We really wish that Mr. Southey would try to prove this prin- ciple , which is , indeed , the foundation of his whole theory of finance ; for we think it ...
... taken by the tax - gatherer out of one man's pocket and put into another man's . We really wish that Mr. Southey would try to prove this prin- ciple , which is , indeed , the foundation of his whole theory of finance ; for we think it ...
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