Critical and historical essaysDent, 1966 |
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Page 154
... able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees . But could Mandeville have created an Iago ? Well as he knew how to resolve characters into their elements , would he have been able to combine those elements in ...
... able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees . But could Mandeville have created an Iago ? Well as he knew how to resolve characters into their elements , would he have been able to combine those elements in ...
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... able specimen of the English literature of the nineteenth century , a book indicating neither extensive knowledge nor great powers of reasoning . And , if we were to judge by the pity with which the writer speaks of the great statesmen ...
... able specimen of the English literature of the nineteenth century , a book indicating neither extensive knowledge nor great powers of reasoning . And , if we were to judge by the pity with which the writer speaks of the great statesmen ...
Page 500
... able to com- prehend how their naughty idle Bobby had become so great a man . His father had been singularly hard of belief . Not until the news of the defence of Arcot arrived in England was the old gentleman heard to growl out that ...
... able to com- prehend how their naughty idle Bobby had become so great a man . His father had been singularly hard of belief . Not until the news of the defence of Arcot arrived in England was the old gentleman heard to growl out that ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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