The Quarterly Review, Volume 77William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1846 - English literature |
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... Church in Scotland . By the Right Rev. M. Russell , LL.D. 139 154 192 · 215 2. Correspondence between the Right Rev. C. H. Terrot and the Rev. D. T. K. Drummond . 3. The Scottish Communion Office examined . 4. Letter from a Committee of ...
... Church in Scotland . By the Right Rev. M. Russell , LL.D. 139 154 192 · 215 2. Correspondence between the Right Rev. C. H. Terrot and the Rev. D. T. K. Drummond . 3. The Scottish Communion Office examined . 4. Letter from a Committee of ...
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... Church preferment - but not his only one . This personage , according to Matthew Paris , held at once 700 livings . He had , Lord Campbell presumes , presented himself to all that fell vacant , and were in the gift of the Crown , while ...
... Church preferment - but not his only one . This personage , according to Matthew Paris , held at once 700 livings . He had , Lord Campbell presumes , presented himself to all that fell vacant , and were in the gift of the Crown , while ...
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... church respecting alleged encroachments by the Crown on their order . The royal response was in these words : - " It is true I have been faulty in this particular : I obtruded you , my Lord of Canterbury , on your see : I was obliged to ...
... church respecting alleged encroachments by the Crown on their order . The royal response was in these words : - " It is true I have been faulty in this particular : I obtruded you , my Lord of Canterbury , on your see : I was obliged to ...
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... Church . Can we censure him for submitting to loss of office , imprisonment , and death , rather than make such a declaration ? He implicitly yielded to the law regulating the succession to the Crown ; and he offered no active ...
... Church . Can we censure him for submitting to loss of office , imprisonment , and death , rather than make such a declaration ? He implicitly yielded to the law regulating the succession to the Crown ; and he offered no active ...
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... Church and a division of the plunder among those who planned the rob- bery , and reckless changes of the established religion , which left un- touched all the errors of Popery , with the absurdity of the King being constituted Pope ...
... Church and a division of the plunder among those who planned the rob- bery , and reckless changes of the established religion , which left un- touched all the errors of Popery , with the absurdity of the King being constituted Pope ...
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