Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 13
... 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. Fox's ...
... 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. Fox's ...
Page 14
... respect Mr. Fox and Sir James Mackintosh had great advantages over almost every English historian who has written since the time of Burnet . Lord Lyttleton had indeed the same ad- vantages ; but he was incapable of using them . Pedantry ...
... respect Mr. Fox and Sir James Mackintosh had great advantages over almost every English historian who has written since the time of Burnet . Lord Lyttleton had indeed the same ad- vantages ; but he was incapable of using them . Pedantry ...
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... respect as the best constructed machinery that ever , in our time , impressed the clearest type on the finest paper . Sydenham first discovered that the cool re- gimen succeeded best in cases of small - pox . By this dis- covery he ...
... respect as the best constructed machinery that ever , in our time , impressed the clearest type on the finest paper . Sydenham first discovered that the cool re- gimen succeeded best in cases of small - pox . By this dis- covery he ...
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... respect , two historians of our time may be proposed as models , Sir James Mackintosh and Mr. Mill . Differing in most things , in this they closely resemble each other . Sir James is lenient - Mr . Mill is severe . But neither of them ...
... respect , two historians of our time may be proposed as models , Sir James Mackintosh and Mr. Mill . Differing in most things , in this they closely resemble each other . Sir James is lenient - Mr . Mill is severe . But neither of them ...
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... respect . Whatever the conceited editor of this book may think , those persons who estimate most correctly the value of the improvements which have recently been made in our insti- tutions , are precisely the persons who are least ...
... respect . Whatever the conceited editor of this book may think , those persons who estimate most correctly the value of the improvements which have recently been made in our insti- tutions , are precisely the persons who are least ...
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