Critical and historical essaysDent, 1966 |
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Page 185
... body of men , perhaps , which the world has ever produced . The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface . He that runs may read them ; nor have there been wanting attentive and malicious observers to point them ...
... body of men , perhaps , which the world has ever produced . The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface . He that runs may read them ; nor have there been wanting attentive and malicious observers to point them ...
Page 245
... body to which they belong , and for a theatre on which their own talents have been advantageously displayed . To ... body , something of the character of a checking body must be given to the body which conducts the executive ...
... body to which they belong , and for a theatre on which their own talents have been advantageously displayed . To ... body , something of the character of a checking body must be given to the body which conducts the executive ...
Page 407
... body politic , as in the natural body , morbid languor generally succeeds morbid excitement . The people had been maddened by sophistry , by calumny , by rhetoric , by stimulants applied to the national pride . In the fulness of bread ...
... body politic , as in the natural body , morbid languor generally succeeds morbid excitement . The people had been maddened by sophistry , by calumny , by rhetoric , by stimulants applied to the national pride . In the fulness of bread ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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