Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... judge of it as if it bore some unknown name . But it is to no purpose . the lines of that venerable countenance are before us . the little peculiar cadences of that voice , from which scholars and statesmen loved to receive the lessons ...
... judge of it as if it bore some unknown name . But it is to no purpose . the lines of that venerable countenance are before us . the little peculiar cadences of that voice , from which scholars and statesmen loved to receive the lessons ...
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... judges . But the extreme austerity of Mr. Hallam takes away something from the pleasure of reading his learned , eloquent , and judicious writings . He is a judge , but a hanging judge , the Page or Buller of the high court of literary ...
... judges . But the extreme austerity of Mr. Hallam takes away something from the pleasure of reading his learned , eloquent , and judicious writings . He is a judge , but a hanging judge , the Page or Buller of the high court of literary ...
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... judge from the unfinished work now before us , Sir James Mackin- tosh possessed in an eminent degree . The style of this Fragment is weighty , manly , and unaf- fected . There are , as we have said , some expressions which seem to us ...
... judge from the unfinished work now before us , Sir James Mackin- tosh possessed in an eminent degree . The style of this Fragment is weighty , manly , and unaf- fected . There are , as we have said , some expressions which seem to us ...
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... judge with certainty of the course which affairs might take . At first the effect was the reform of great abuses , and honest men rejoiced . Then came com- motion , proscription , confiscation , the bankruptcy , the assignats , the ...
... judge with certainty of the course which affairs might take . At first the effect was the reform of great abuses , and honest men rejoiced . Then came com- motion , proscription , confiscation , the bankruptcy , the assignats , the ...
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... judge us , so ought we to judge our fathers . In order to form a correct estimate of their merits , we ought to place ourselves in their situation - to put out of our minds , for a time , all that knowledge which they , however eager in ...
... judge us , so ought we to judge our fathers . In order to form a correct estimate of their merits , we ought to place ourselves in their situation - to put out of our minds , for a time , all that knowledge which they , however eager in ...
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