Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3Hurd and Houghton, 1874 |
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... genius of Alfred . But the undoubted splendour of the line of Hastings needs no illustration from fable . One branch of that line wore , in the fourteenth century , the coronet of Pembroke . From another branch sprang the renowned ...
... genius of Alfred . But the undoubted splendour of the line of Hastings needs no illustration from fable . One branch of that line wore , in the fourteenth century , the coronet of Pembroke . From another branch sprang the renowned ...
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... genius and so much ambition . The very ploughmen observed , and long remembered , how kindly little Warren took to his book . The daily sight of the lands which his ancestors had possessed , and which had passed into the hands of ...
... genius and so much ambition . The very ploughmen observed , and long remembered , how kindly little Warren took to his book . The daily sight of the lands which his ancestors had possessed , and which had passed into the hands of ...
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... as strongly attached as the inhabitants of Norfolk and Leicestershire . The great powers of Europe , humbled to the dust by the vigour and genius which had guided the counsels of George the Second , WARREN HASTINGS . 57.
... as strongly attached as the inhabitants of Norfolk and Leicestershire . The great powers of Europe , humbled to the dust by the vigour and genius which had guided the counsels of George the Second , WARREN HASTINGS . 57.
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... genius and serene courage of Hastings achieved their most signal triumph . A swift ship , flying before the south - west monsoon , brought the evil tidings in a few days to Calcutta . In twenty - four hours the Governor - General had ...
... genius and serene courage of Hastings achieved their most signal triumph . A swift ship , flying before the south - west monsoon , brought the evil tidings in a few days to Calcutta . In twenty - four hours the Governor - General had ...
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... genius and so much sensibility . Others have perhaps been equally laborious , and have collected an equal mass of materials . But the manner in which Burke brought his higher powers of intellect to work on statements of facts , and on ...
... genius and so much sensibility . Others have perhaps been equally laborious , and have collected an equal mass of materials . But the manner in which Burke brought his higher powers of intellect to work on statements of facts , and on ...
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