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Page 89
... called the Cabinet Council ; and next year gratified his malevolence to the clergy , by a Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Cases , and The Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . Oliver was now dead ; Richard was ...
... called the Cabinet Council ; and next year gratified his malevolence to the clergy , by a Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Cases , and The Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . Oliver was now dead ; Richard was ...
Page 97
... called to secure what came . At other times he would dictate perhaps forty lines in a breath , and then reduce them to half the number . ' These bursts of lights , and involutions of darkness ; these transient and involuntary excursions ...
... called to secure what came . At other times he would dictate perhaps forty lines in a breath , and then reduce them to half the number . ' These bursts of lights , and involutions of darkness ; these transient and involuntary excursions ...
Page 295
... called , may be considered as owing its establishment to Dryden ; from whose time it is apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former savage- ness . The affluence and comprehension of our language is very ...
... called , may be considered as owing its establishment to Dryden ; from whose time it is apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former savage- ness . The affluence and comprehension of our language is very ...
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