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... truth of a well - known and horrible anecdote popularly believed of the monster Kirke . Such is the mode in which the authority of Oldmixon is treated by Lord Macaulay , when Kirke , who added to , or , as Lord Macaulay appears to think ...
... truth of a well - known and horrible anecdote popularly believed of the monster Kirke . Such is the mode in which the authority of Oldmixon is treated by Lord Macaulay , when Kirke , who added to , or , as Lord Macaulay appears to think ...
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... truth of which was tardily acknowledged nearly a century and a half afterwards , in the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts , and of the Catholic disabili- ties . The King then proceeds to grant his free pardon to all persons ...
... truth of which was tardily acknowledged nearly a century and a half afterwards , in the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts , and of the Catholic disabili- ties . The King then proceeds to grant his free pardon to all persons ...
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... truth than he really was . I do not think he designedly published anything he believed to be false . " He had a boisterous , vehe- ment manner of expressing him- self , which often made him ridi- culous , especially in the House of ...
... truth than he really was . I do not think he designedly published anything he believed to be false . " He had a boisterous , vehe- ment manner of expressing him- self , which often made him ridi- culous , especially in the House of ...
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... truth of which is within the knowledge of the writer , and to give that false account to the public under the form of history ! This estimate of what an historian owes to his party , may account for some passages in Lord Macaulay's ...
... truth of which is within the knowledge of the writer , and to give that false account to the public under the form of history ! This estimate of what an historian owes to his party , may account for some passages in Lord Macaulay's ...
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... Macaulay's determination to blacken his character . The passage just cited shows the means which Lord Macaulay thinks may be used consistently with emphatic 66 honesty . " 66 TRUTH and fiction are so strangely interwoven in the account.
... Macaulay's determination to blacken his character . The passage just cited shows the means which Lord Macaulay thinks may be used consistently with emphatic 66 honesty . " 66 TRUTH and fiction are so strangely interwoven in the account.
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