Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1907 |
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Page 290
... MONTAGU , Esq . , 16 volÉ› . 8vo . London : 1825-1834 . WE return our hearty thanks to Mr. Montagu for this truly valuable work . From the opinions which he expresses as a biographer we often dissent . But about his . merit as a ...
... MONTAGU , Esq . , 16 volÉ› . 8vo . London : 1825-1834 . WE return our hearty thanks to Mr. Montagu for this truly valuable work . From the opinions which he expresses as a biographer we often dissent . But about his . merit as a ...
Page 293
... Montagu's faith is sincere and implicit . He practises no trickery . He conceals nothing . He puts the facts before us in the full confidence that they will produce on our minds the effect which they have produced on his own . It is not ...
... Montagu's faith is sincere and implicit . He practises no trickery . He conceals nothing . He puts the facts before us in the full confidence that they will produce on our minds the effect which they have produced on his own . It is not ...
Page 294
... Montagu to depart so far from his master's precepts , except zeal for his master's honour . We shall follow a different course . We shall attempt , with the valuable assistance which Mr. Montagu has afforded us , to frame such an ...
... Montagu to depart so far from his master's precepts , except zeal for his master's honour . We shall follow a different course . We shall attempt , with the valuable assistance which Mr. Montagu has afforded us , to frame such an ...
Page 303
... Montagu is more charitable . supposes that Burleigh was influenced merely by affection for his nephew , and was " little disposed to encourage him to rely on others rather than on himself , and to venture on the quicksands of politics ...
... Montagu is more charitable . supposes that Burleigh was influenced merely by affection for his nephew , and was " little disposed to encourage him to rely on others rather than on himself , and to venture on the quicksands of politics ...
Page 315
... Montagu not merely excusable , but deserving of high admiration . The integrity and benevolence of this gentleman are so well known that our readers will probably be at a loss to conceive by what steps he can have arrived at so ...
... Montagu not merely excusable , but deserving of high admiration . The integrity and benevolence of this gentleman are so well known that our readers will probably be at a loss to conceive by what steps he can have arrived at so ...
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