The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen143A. Constable, 1876 |
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... cause he is brought in office . ' The disgust was very natural . Men who had been outlawed and proscribed ; who had groaned under the boot and thumbscrew ; who had been driven to hide in caves and vaults , and been half - starved in the ...
... cause he is brought in office . ' The disgust was very natural . Men who had been outlawed and proscribed ; who had groaned under the boot and thumbscrew ; who had been driven to hide in caves and vaults , and been half - starved in the ...
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... cause with Mont- gomery ; Fletcher of Saltoun degraded himself to the level of that perverse prater Sir Patrick Hume . On the greater nobles the Government could not rely . Alone of his name Argyle stooped to treason ; Hamilton was a ...
... cause with Mont- gomery ; Fletcher of Saltoun degraded himself to the level of that perverse prater Sir Patrick Hume . On the greater nobles the Government could not rely . Alone of his name Argyle stooped to treason ; Hamilton was a ...
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... cause of their noisy opposition . The King at first was firm ; members of the Assembly of 1695 must take the oath , or the Assembly would be dissolved . Readers of Scottish his- tory are familiar with the story how Carstairs returned ...
... cause of their noisy opposition . The King at first was firm ; members of the Assembly of 1695 must take the oath , or the Assembly would be dissolved . Readers of Scottish his- tory are familiar with the story how Carstairs returned ...
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... dictated by the same spirit as the resistance of Liberals in 1687 to the dispensing power claimed by James . govern- Empire has cause for thankfulness that Episcopacy was not 18 Jan. Scottish Statesmen of the Revolution :
... dictated by the same spirit as the resistance of Liberals in 1687 to the dispensing power claimed by James . govern- Empire has cause for thankfulness that Episcopacy was not 18 Jan. Scottish Statesmen of the Revolution :
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... cause . When the stormy times passed away , the bulk of the Scottish nobility and gentry revealed themselves Episcopalians . The people , hating Episcopacy , became alienated from their superiors . This was , in Scotland , a great ...
... cause . When the stormy times passed away , the bulk of the Scottish nobility and gentry revealed themselves Episcopalians . The people , hating Episcopacy , became alienated from their superiors . This was , in Scotland , a great ...
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Página 172 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them, and lo, they are ! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a
Página 172 - Consider it well ; each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; It is everywhere in the world—loud, soft, and all is said : Give it to me to use ! I mix it with two in my thought, And there ! ye have seen and heard ; consider and bow the
Página 581 - who are the same in wealth and in " poverty, in glory and in obscurity." Great as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were well aware that the titles and rewards, which he gained by his own works, were as nothing in the
Página 127 - that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament.
Página 581 - except himself to speak. He has told us how his debt to them was incalculable ; how they guided him to truth; how they filled his mind with noble and graceful images; how they stood by him in all vicissitudes,—comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are
Página 438 - no goods or commodities whatever, of the growth, production, or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or America, should be imported either into England or Ireland or any of the plantations of Great Britain, except in Britishbuilt ships, owned by British subjects, and of which the master and three-fourths of the crew belonged to that country
Página 568 - But he saw on Palatinus The white porch of his home, And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of
Página 569 - materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted." ' How much this letter pleased Macaulay is indicated by the fact of his having kept it unburned : a compliment which, except in this single instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents.
Página 580 - History will have been printed and sold in the United Kingdom alone.' Caring little for money, except in so far as he was able to make a liberal and generous use of it, Macaulay enjoyed the power his new opulence had conferred on him. Until he was fifty-two years of age, he had never had a
Página 497 - was thrown out of gear. The scarcity of hands made it difficult for the minor tenants to perform the services due for their lands, and only a temporary abandonment of half the rent by the landowners induced the farmers to refrain from the abandonment of their farms.