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Page 155
... effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as a little girl is affected by the story of poor Red Riding - hood . She knows that it is all false , that wolves cannot speak , that ...
... effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as a little girl is affected by the story of poor Red Riding - hood . She knows that it is all false , that wolves cannot speak , that ...
Page 323
... effect of this change was important . The indirect effect has been more important still . From that time the House of Commons has been really the paramount power in the State . It has , in truth , appointed and removed ministers ...
... effect of this change was important . The indirect effect has been more important still . From that time the House of Commons has been really the paramount power in the State . It has , in truth , appointed and removed ministers ...
Page 609
... effect , he would himself go to Lucknow , and do that from which feebler minds recoil with dismay . The resident , thus menaced , waited on his Highness , and insisted that the treaty of Chunar should be carried into full and immediate ...
... effect , he would himself go to Lucknow , and do that from which feebler minds recoil with dismay . The resident , thus menaced , waited on his Highness , and insisted that the treaty of Chunar should be carried into full and immediate ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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