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Page ix
... OPINIONS ON CÆSAR AND MILTON THE CÆSARS • SIR JOHN MOORE A DEFENCE OF POETRY THE EPIDEMIC OF DANTE THE ROMAN CHURCH 276 • 277 280 286 · 288 · 290 293 299 305 • 309 313 • 316 DESCRIPTION " 321 323 327 BECKY SHARP • 329 TH PREFACE . HE ...
... OPINIONS ON CÆSAR AND MILTON THE CÆSARS • SIR JOHN MOORE A DEFENCE OF POETRY THE EPIDEMIC OF DANTE THE ROMAN CHURCH 276 • 277 280 286 · 288 · 290 293 299 305 • 309 313 • 316 DESCRIPTION " 321 323 327 BECKY SHARP • 329 TH PREFACE . HE ...
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... opinion that the English literature of the last three centuries is , by itself , more valuable than the literature produced by the whole world before the birth of Knox and Calvin . The extracts go down to Thackeray ; partly because the ...
... opinion that the English literature of the last three centuries is , by itself , more valuable than the literature produced by the whole world before the birth of Knox and Calvin . The extracts go down to Thackeray ; partly because the ...
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... opinion should seme to judg more soundly of so weighty a consideracon ) that all that land weare a sea - poole : which kind of speach , is the manner rather of desperate men far driven , to wish the utter ruine of that which they cannot ...
... opinion should seme to judg more soundly of so weighty a consideracon ) that all that land weare a sea - poole : which kind of speach , is the manner rather of desperate men far driven , to wish the utter ruine of that which they cannot ...
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... opinion otherwise , then that this King had met with no occasion to do that which hath caused so much scandal to him and his Parliaments . But whereas Sanders hath remarked Covetousnesse as a great vice in this King , I could wish it ...
... opinion otherwise , then that this King had met with no occasion to do that which hath caused so much scandal to him and his Parliaments . But whereas Sanders hath remarked Covetousnesse as a great vice in this King , I could wish it ...
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... opinions con- cerning the Institution , and Rights of Common - weaths , from Aristotle , Cicero , and other men , Greeks and Romanes , that living under Popular States , derived those Rights , not from the Principles of Nature , but ...
... opinions con- cerning the Institution , and Rights of Common - weaths , from Aristotle , Cicero , and other men , Greeks and Romanes , that living under Popular States , derived those Rights , not from the Principles of Nature , but ...
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