Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... opinion of the last work of Sir James Mackintosh . We have in vain tried to perform what ought to be to a critic an ... opinions concerning MACKINTOSH'S HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION ENGLAND, IN 1688 Edinburgh Review.
... opinion of the last work of Sir James Mackintosh . We have in vain tried to perform what ought to be to a critic an ... opinions concerning MACKINTOSH'S HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION ENGLAND, IN 1688 Edinburgh Review.
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... opinions about Lord Bacon , and about the French literature of the age of Louis XIV .; and with opinions , more absurd still , about the poet- ry of Homer , whom it is evident , from his criticisms , that he cannot read in the original ...
... opinions about Lord Bacon , and about the French literature of the age of Louis XIV .; and with opinions , more absurd still , about the poet- ry of Homer , whom it is evident , from his criticisms , that he cannot read in the original ...
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... opinions , only because events produced on him the effect which they produced on a whole genera- tion ? This biographer ... opinion again , and pronounces this fruit a very powerful remedy , which ought to be employed only in ex- treme ...
... opinions , only because events produced on him the effect which they produced on a whole genera- tion ? This biographer ... opinion again , and pronounces this fruit a very powerful remedy , which ought to be employed only in ex- treme ...
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... opinion that the French Revolution , in spite of all its crimes and follies , was a great blessing to mankind . But it was not only natural , but inevitable , that those who had only seen the first act should be ignorant of the ...
... opinion that the French Revolution , in spite of all its crimes and follies , was a great blessing to mankind . But it was not only natural , but inevitable , that those who had only seen the first act should be ignorant of the ...
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... opinions were in his latter years is written in the annals of his country . Those annals will sufficiently refute the calumny which his biographer has ventured to publish in the very advertisement to his work . " Sir James Mackintosh ...
... opinions were in his latter years is written in the annals of his country . Those annals will sufficiently refute the calumny which his biographer has ventured to publish in the very advertisement to his work . " Sir James Mackintosh ...
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