Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... things were the subjects of their constant thought and of their most familiar conversation . Gibbon has remarked , that his history is much the better for his having been an officer in the militia and a member of the House of Com- mons ...
... things were the subjects of their constant thought and of their most familiar conversation . Gibbon has remarked , that his history is much the better for his having been an officer in the militia and a member of the House of Com- mons ...
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... thing . We take the first page on which we open as a fair sample , and no more than a fair sample , of the whole . " Lord Halifax played his part with deeper perfidy . This opi- nion is expressed without reference to the strange ...
... thing . We take the first page on which we open as a fair sample , and no more than a fair sample , of the whole . " Lord Halifax played his part with deeper perfidy . This opi- nion is expressed without reference to the strange ...
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... things that were done before the coming in of the very last fashions in politics . What he thinks about this , or about any other matter , is of little consequence , and would be of no consequence at all , if he had not deformed an ...
... things that were done before the coming in of the very last fashions in politics . What he thinks about this , or about any other matter , is of little consequence , and would be of no consequence at all , if he had not deformed an ...
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... things - seeing that , by the confession of the most obstinate enemies of innovation , our race has hitherto been almost constantly advancing in knowledge , and not seeing any reason to believe that , precisely at the point of time at ...
... things - seeing that , by the confession of the most obstinate enemies of innovation , our race has hitherto been almost constantly advancing in knowledge , and not seeing any reason to believe that , precisely at the point of time at ...
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... things which he never would have known , but for the salutary effects of their exer- tions . The men to whom we owe it that we have the House of Commons are sneered at because they did not suffer the debates of the House to be published ...
... things which he never would have known , but for the salutary effects of their exer- tions . The men to whom we owe it that we have the House of Commons are sneered at because they did not suffer the debates of the House to be published ...
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