The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those ProvincesWhittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - 732 páginas |
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... shew- room of the memory : -because no conclusions , applicable to common life , can be drawn from it ; because it excites no sense of reality . It is gone through as a task , —by children on compulsion , by young people as a merit ...
... shew- room of the memory : -because no conclusions , applicable to common life , can be drawn from it ; because it excites no sense of reality . It is gone through as a task , —by children on compulsion , by young people as a merit ...
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... shew and the least noise . And after all , the history of nations is only the history of a small portion of the life of a very few men . We cannot be supposed to censure the study of history : we only wish it to be properly balanced by ...
... shew and the least noise . And after all , the history of nations is only the history of a small portion of the life of a very few men . We cannot be supposed to censure the study of history : we only wish it to be properly balanced by ...
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... shews , first , how much the bonds of domestic duty are relaxed by civil anarchy ; and secondly , how necessary the most incorruptible representatives have found it to secure the good graces of their female constituents , who , though ...
... shews , first , how much the bonds of domestic duty are relaxed by civil anarchy ; and secondly , how necessary the most incorruptible representatives have found it to secure the good graces of their female constituents , who , though ...
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... shews that the patriot was not then ill - affected towards the restored line , but proves him to have been a truly wise and liberal statesman ; unlike too many champions of liberty , who , in their dread of prerogative , have unwarily ...
... shews that the patriot was not then ill - affected towards the restored line , but proves him to have been a truly wise and liberal statesman ; unlike too many champions of liberty , who , in their dread of prerogative , have unwarily ...
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... shews him apprehensive that the Episcopal party might go to extremes . The inhabitants of Hull were especially desirous to obtain the patronage of their own made a bugbear of by those loyal persons who hold that the removal of catholic ...
... shews him apprehensive that the Episcopal party might go to extremes . The inhabitants of Hull were especially desirous to obtain the patronage of their own made a bugbear of by those loyal persons who hold that the removal of catholic ...
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Página 90 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Página 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.