Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... effect really was to debase and enfeeble his style , he was little on his guard against those more serious improprieties of manner into which a great orator , who undertakes to write history , is in danger of falling . There is about ...
... effect really was to debase and enfeeble his style , he was little on his guard against those more serious improprieties of manner into which a great orator , who undertakes to write history , is in danger of falling . There is about ...
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... effect of his most successful speeches was small , when compared with the quantity of ability and learning which was expended on them . We could easily name men who , not possessing a tenth part of his intellectual powers , hardly ever ...
... effect of his most successful speeches was small , when compared with the quantity of ability and learning which was expended on them . We could easily name men who , not possessing a tenth part of his intellectual powers , hardly ever ...
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... effect . His mind was a vast magazine , admirably arranged ; everything was there , and everything was in its place . His judgments on men , on sects , on books , had been often and carefully tested and weighed , and had then been ...
... effect . His mind was a vast magazine , admirably arranged ; everything was there , and everything was in its place . His judgments on men , on sects , on books , had been often and carefully tested and weighed , and had then been ...
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... effect of the whole , to bring out strongly all the characteristic features , and to throw the light and shade in such a manner as may heighten the effect . This skill , as far as we can judge from the unfinished work now before us ...
... effect of the whole , to bring out strongly all the characteristic features , and to throw the light and shade in such a manner as may heighten the effect . This skill , as far as we can judge from the unfinished work now before us ...
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... effect which they produced on a whole genera- tion ? This biographer may , for aught we know , have revelations from Heaven like Mr. Percival , or pure antici- pated cognitions like the disciples of Kant . But such poor creatures as ...
... effect which they produced on a whole genera- tion ? This biographer may , for aught we know , have revelations from Heaven like Mr. Percival , or pure antici- pated cognitions like the disciples of Kant . But such poor creatures as ...
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