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Page ix
... periods foreign politics have presented a ruinous snare . During the four last years of Queen Anne , the Tories played the most treasonable part . That was early in the eight- eenth century . Almost in the corresponding years of the ...
... periods foreign politics have presented a ruinous snare . During the four last years of Queen Anne , the Tories played the most treasonable part . That was early in the eight- eenth century . Almost in the corresponding years of the ...
Page xiv
... period large sacrifices at the command of that duty to the throne which they had been trained to think para- mount among all public duties . Lord Francis , even when a boy of eighteen , had prodigally surrendered his life on the field ...
... period large sacrifices at the command of that duty to the throne which they had been trained to think para- mount among all public duties . Lord Francis , even when a boy of eighteen , had prodigally surrendered his life on the field ...
Page xvi
... period to be published . I , for my part , being no further interested in the inquiry than as regarded the pretended pauperism of the Duke , was satisfied with a brief extract made by a friend bearing on this single point . And this was ...
... period to be published . I , for my part , being no further interested in the inquiry than as regarded the pretended pauperism of the Duke , was satisfied with a brief extract made by a friend bearing on this single point . And this was ...
Page xxi
... period of his life had a vestige of patriotism , would have sacrificed with- out compunction all possible trophies , intellectual or martial , of our national grandeur . He was never in- disposed for such a service . But what gave him a ...
... period of his life had a vestige of patriotism , would have sacrificed with- out compunction all possible trophies , intellectual or martial , of our national grandeur . He was never in- disposed for such a service . But what gave him a ...
Page xxii
... period of Louis XIV . It might not be true of 1670 , any more than of 1415 , that England owed the least fraction of her intellectual development to the influence of French models . But , if not really more true as a fact , it was a ...
... period of Louis XIV . It might not be true of 1670 , any more than of 1415 , that England owed the least fraction of her intellectual development to the influence of French models . But , if not really more true as a fact , it was a ...
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Page 36 - Thus warranted, the fellows brought their cause before the Queen's Bench, and before the end of Easter term 1713 obtained a rule for the bishop to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel him to discharge his judicial functions. Two considerable advantages had been obtained by Bentley about this time. He had been able to apply the principle of divide et...
Page 387 - Lost, are not militant but triumphant for ever as long as the languages exist in which they speak or can be taught to speak. They never can transmigrate into new incarnations. To reproduce these in new forms, or variations, even if in some things they should be improved, would be to plagiarize. A good steamengine is properly superseded by a better. But one lovely pastoral valley is not superseded by another, nor a statue of Praxiteles by a statue of Michael Angelo.