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Page 29
... present two millions and a half of inhab- itants , the city contained , in the days when Milton's boyish feet trod its pavements , some- thing under two hundred thousand souls . The great fire of 1666 licked up with its flaming tongues ...
... present two millions and a half of inhab- itants , the city contained , in the days when Milton's boyish feet trod its pavements , some- thing under two hundred thousand souls . The great fire of 1666 licked up with its flaming tongues ...
Page 239
... present : few words will save us , well considered ; few and easy things , now seasonably done . " But if the people be so affected as to prostitute religion and liberty to the vain and groundless apprehension that nothing but king ...
... present : few words will save us , well considered ; few and easy things , now seasonably done . " But if the people be so affected as to prostitute religion and liberty to the vain and groundless apprehension that nothing but king ...
Page 303
... present foundations of comparative liberty . Those nice checks and balances which enable it now to combine , to some extent , democratic energy with the sta- bility of an hereditary order , and which have served to curb so completely ...
... present foundations of comparative liberty . Those nice checks and balances which enable it now to combine , to some extent , democratic energy with the sta- bility of an hereditary order , and which have served to curb so completely ...
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