Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Том 33John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1854 |
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... look more closely into the narratives of Shake- speare's authorities , and to test them , as we are well able to do , by the State Papers which have since his time been brought to light , will they in any degree regain our confidence ...
... look more closely into the narratives of Shake- speare's authorities , and to test them , as we are well able to do , by the State Papers which have since his time been brought to light , will they in any degree regain our confidence ...
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... which wear the impress of his mind . We English , however , need not look so far to find traits which ought to commend his memory to us - in these democratic days , least of all when the people , and the peo- 1854. ] 9 CARDINAL WOLSEY .
... which wear the impress of his mind . We English , however , need not look so far to find traits which ought to commend his memory to us - in these democratic days , least of all when the people , and the peo- 1854. ] 9 CARDINAL WOLSEY .
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... look to his personal intercourse with the cour- tiers with whom he came in contact , to the number of his retinue , or the furniture of his palace . This is but to trifle with history ; and his character is written , not in these , but ...
... look to his personal intercourse with the cour- tiers with whom he came in contact , to the number of his retinue , or the furniture of his palace . This is but to trifle with history ; and his character is written , not in these , but ...
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... look for what he was in a fair estimate of his actions . Maturely weighing these , we should say that there is no great man in English history against whom so many accusations have been heaped , and against whom so few can be proved ...
... look for what he was in a fair estimate of his actions . Maturely weighing these , we should say that there is no great man in English history against whom so many accusations have been heaped , and against whom so few can be proved ...
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... look down on all the world from - the pulpit , and with a gentleman who is preparing himself to how little the Dutch public was accustomed , to talk most learnedly on all matters , old and new ? even in those days , to original prose ...
... look down on all the world from - the pulpit , and with a gentleman who is preparing himself to how little the Dutch public was accustomed , to talk most learnedly on all matters , old and new ? even in those days , to original prose ...
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