The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 45A. Constable, 1827 |
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... important remarks . Whiggism , ' he ingeniously observes , is a sort of political Protest- antism , and pays a similar tax for the freedom of its creed , in the mul- tiplicity of opinions which that very freedom engenders - while true ...
... important remarks . Whiggism , ' he ingeniously observes , is a sort of political Protest- antism , and pays a similar tax for the freedom of its creed , in the mul- tiplicity of opinions which that very freedom engenders - while true ...
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... important recognitions of the best principles of Whiggism , followed up , as they were , by the Resolutions of Lord John Cavendish at the close of the Session , pledg- ing the ministers to a perseverance in the same task of purification ...
... important recognitions of the best principles of Whiggism , followed up , as they were , by the Resolutions of Lord John Cavendish at the close of the Session , pledg- ing the ministers to a perseverance in the same task of purification ...
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... important matters , Mr Moore cannot resist stopping to moralize on the wit and per- sonality of the once famous Rolliad . Mr Rolle , ' he observes , was one of those unlucky persons , whose destiny it is to be immortalised by ridicule ...
... important matters , Mr Moore cannot resist stopping to moralize on the wit and per- sonality of the once famous Rolliad . Mr Rolle , ' he observes , was one of those unlucky persons , whose destiny it is to be immortalised by ridicule ...
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... important question of the restrictions on the powers of the Regent , which appears to us to contain the most masterly , judicious , and important view of the subject which has yet been offered to the public . ' On the one side , ' says ...
... important question of the restrictions on the powers of the Regent , which appears to us to contain the most masterly , judicious , and important view of the subject which has yet been offered to the public . ' On the one side , ' says ...
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... facility with which Mr Pitt had given way to it . Not only , indeed , in his undignified eagerness for office , did he sacrifice without stipulation the important question , which , 1826 . 41 Moore's Life of Sheridan .
... facility with which Mr Pitt had given way to it . Not only , indeed , in his undignified eagerness for office , did he sacrifice without stipulation the important question , which , 1826 . 41 Moore's Life of Sheridan .
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