Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... talents were not those which ena- ble a speaker to produce with rapidity a series of striking but transitory impressions , to excite the minds of five hun dred gentlemen at midnight , without saying anything that any one of them will be ...
... talents were not those which ena- ble a speaker to produce with rapidity a series of striking but transitory impressions , to excite the minds of five hun dred gentlemen at midnight , without saying anything that any one of them will be ...
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... talents who entered into life at nearly the same time with him . Such persons we have seen rushing from one wild extreme to another - out - Paining Paine - out - Castlereaghing Castle- reagh - Pantisocratists - ultra - Tories - Heretics ...
... talents who entered into life at nearly the same time with him . Such persons we have seen rushing from one wild extreme to another - out - Paining Paine - out - Castlereaghing Castle- reagh - Pantisocratists - ultra - Tories - Heretics ...
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... talents give him a privilege of straying from the strict rules of caution . " Men like Hali- fax do not write elaborate characters , either favourable or unfavourable , of those whom they consider as " inferior per- sonages . " Yet ...
... talents give him a privilege of straying from the strict rules of caution . " Men like Hali- fax do not write elaborate characters , either favourable or unfavourable , of those whom they consider as " inferior per- sonages . " Yet ...
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... talents , not merely to seats in the House of Lords , but to the first influence in that assembly . Nor had the general conduct of the Peers been such as to make them unpopular They had not , indeed , in opposing arbitrary measures 1 t ...
... talents , not merely to seats in the House of Lords , but to the first influence in that assembly . Nor had the general conduct of the Peers been such as to make them unpopular They had not , indeed , in opposing arbitrary measures 1 t ...
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... talents above mediocrity . But he was sensual , frivolous , false , and cold - hearted , be- yond almost any prince of whom history makes mention . Under the government of such a man , the English people could not be long in recovering ...
... talents above mediocrity . But he was sensual , frivolous , false , and cold - hearted , be- yond almost any prince of whom history makes mention . Under the government of such a man , the English people could not be long in recovering ...
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