Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... force them to restore the limbs which should be wanting . A head by a hewer of milestones , joined to a bosom by Praxiteles , would not surprise or shock us more than this Supplement . The Memoir contains much that is worth reading ...
... force them to restore the limbs which should be wanting . A head by a hewer of milestones , joined to a bosom by Praxiteles , would not surprise or shock us more than this Supplement . The Memoir contains much that is worth reading ...
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... force of the rebound was proportioned to the force of the original impulse . The pendulum swung furiously to the left because it had been drawn too far to the right . We own that nothing gives us so high an idea of the judgment and ...
... force of the rebound was proportioned to the force of the original impulse . The pendulum swung furiously to the left because it had been drawn too far to the right . We own that nothing gives us so high an idea of the judgment and ...
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... force , — an appeal , too , which would have been made under the most unfavourable circumstances . He conceived that the Tories , hampered by their professions of passive obedience , would have submitted to his pleasure ; and that the ...
... force , — an appeal , too , which would have been made under the most unfavourable circumstances . He conceived that the Tories , hampered by their professions of passive obedience , would have submitted to his pleasure ; and that the ...
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... force of an opposition , by dissolv- ing the Parliament . But if that experiment should fail , if the people should be of the same mind with their represen- tatives he would clearly have no course left but to yield , to abdicate , or to ...
... force of an opposition , by dissolv- ing the Parliament . But if that experiment should fail , if the people should be of the same mind with their represen- tatives he would clearly have no course left but to yield , to abdicate , or to ...
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... force . All those attempts have failed . For a hundred and forty years no statesman , while engaged in constitutional opposition to a government , has had the axe before his eyes . The smallest minorities strug- gling against the most ...
... force . All those attempts have failed . For a hundred and forty years no statesman , while engaged in constitutional opposition to a government , has had the axe before his eyes . The smallest minorities strug- gling against the most ...
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