Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... produced so lively a picture of the court , the camp , and the senate - house . In this respect Mr. Fox and Sir James Mackintosh had great advantages over almost every English historian who has written since the time of Burnet . Lord ...
... produced so lively a picture of the court , the camp , and the senate - house . In this respect Mr. Fox and Sir James Mackintosh had great advantages over almost every English historian who has written since the time of Burnet . Lord ...
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... producing a greater impres- sion than was produced by his most splendid and elaborate orations . His luminous and philosophical disquisition on the Reform Bill was spoken . to empty benches . Those , indeed , who had the wit to keep ...
... producing a greater impres- sion than was produced by his most splendid and elaborate orations . His luminous and philosophical disquisition on the Reform Bill was spoken . to empty benches . Those , indeed , who had the wit to keep ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. which are produced in Parliament at a moment's notice , → which puzzle a plain man who , if he had them before him in writing , would soon detect their fallacy , and which the great debater who ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. which are produced in Parliament at a moment's notice , → which puzzle a plain man who , if he had them before him in writing , would soon detect their fallacy , and which the great debater who ...
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... produce the 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 ...
... produce the 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 ...
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... produce an evil a hundred times more formidable -anarchy ; -that the theory laid down in the " Declaration of the Rights of Man ' had , in a great measure , produced the crimes of the Reign of Terror ; -that none but an eye- witness ...
... produce an evil a hundred times more formidable -anarchy ; -that the theory laid down in the " Declaration of the Rights of Man ' had , in a great measure , produced the crimes of the Reign of Terror ; -that none but an eye- witness ...
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