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... cause , or consequence , of the general destiny - such an account , though it admitted nothing that did not originate from , or tend towards , a single person , ought not to be called a biography , but a history . Thus Robertson's ...
... cause , or consequence , of the general destiny - such an account , though it admitted nothing that did not originate from , or tend towards , a single person , ought not to be called a biography , but a history . Thus Robertson's ...
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Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns Hartley Coleridge. cause it bestows the dignity of history on prurient or malignant scandal , but because it breeds a false belief that the welfare and distress of com- munities are doled out at the ...
Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns Hartley Coleridge. cause it bestows the dignity of history on prurient or malignant scandal , but because it breeds a false belief that the welfare and distress of com- munities are doled out at the ...
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... cause , he doubtless instilled into young Andrew's mind the early love of that liberty , to the support of which he devoted his life and talents . Of Andrew's school days little is recorded : at fifteen , an age which would now be ...
... cause , he doubtless instilled into young Andrew's mind the early love of that liberty , to the support of which he devoted his life and talents . Of Andrew's school days little is recorded : at fifteen , an age which would now be ...
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... cause specified or assigned ; whereupon our House , after very long debate , voted , ' that the Lords not complying with the desires of the House of Commons in committing and sequestring from their House the Earl of Clarendon , upon the ...
... cause specified or assigned ; whereupon our House , after very long debate , voted , ' that the Lords not complying with the desires of the House of Commons in committing and sequestring from their House the Earl of Clarendon , upon the ...
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... cause , yet he felt it all along ( which is the understanding of brutes , ) in the effect . " 187. " For I do not ... cause it fought so ably , when it was become the cause of conscience and liberty . His allu- sions to romances , plays ...
... cause , yet he felt it all along ( which is the understanding of brutes , ) in the effect . " 187. " For I do not ... cause it fought so ably , when it was become the cause of conscience and liberty . His allu- sions to romances , plays ...
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