Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... feelings of respect and gratitude which may possibly pervert our judgment . It is hardly possible to avoid instituting a comparison between this work and another celebrated Fragment . Our readers will easily guess that we allude to Mr ...
... feelings of respect and gratitude which may possibly pervert our judgment . It is hardly possible to avoid instituting a comparison between this work and another celebrated Fragment . Our readers will easily guess that we allude to Mr ...
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... feeling , the hidden mechanism by which parties are moved , all these things were the subjects of their constant thought and of their most familiar conversation . Gibbon has remarked , that his history is much the better for his having ...
... feeling , the hidden mechanism by which parties are moved , all these things were the subjects of their constant thought and of their most familiar conversation . Gibbon has remarked , that his history is much the better for his having ...
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... feeling that there was a constant effort , a tug up hill . Nature , or habit which had become nature , asserted its rights . Mr. Fox wrote debates . Sir James Mackintosh spoke essays . As far as mere diction was concerned , indeed , Mr ...
... feeling that there was a constant effort , a tug up hill . Nature , or habit which had become nature , asserted its rights . Mr. Fox wrote debates . Sir James Mackintosh spoke essays . As far as mere diction was concerned , indeed , Mr ...
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... feels something like contempt for the celebrated man whose life he has undertaken to write , and whom he was incompetent to serve in the capacity of a corrector of the press . Our readers may form a notion of the spirit in which the ...
... feels something like contempt for the celebrated man whose life he has undertaken to write , and whom he was incompetent to serve in the capacity of a corrector of the press . Our readers may form a notion of the spirit in which the ...
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... the assistance of any book of reference to detect . The author has not the smallest notion of the state of England in 1688 ; of the feelings and opi nions of the people ; of the relative position of MACKINTOSH'S HISTORY . 29.
... the assistance of any book of reference to detect . The author has not the smallest notion of the state of England in 1688 ; of the feelings and opi nions of the people ; of the relative position of MACKINTOSH'S HISTORY . 29.
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