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Page 215
... looks . Clarendon , on the other hand , represents him as a man whose " best faculty was raillery , " and who was " for his pleasant and agree- able humour acceptable unto the King . " The truth seems to be that , destitute as Bennet ...
... looks . Clarendon , on the other hand , represents him as a man whose " best faculty was raillery , " and who was " for his pleasant and agree- able humour acceptable unto the King . " The truth seems to be that , destitute as Bennet ...
Page 473
... looks , tones , and gestures , worthy of Garrick or Talma , was out of place in a small apartment where the audience ... look only at facts and arguments , and three or four listless and supercilious men of fashion , whom anything like ...
... looks , tones , and gestures , worthy of Garrick or Talma , was out of place in a small apartment where the audience ... look only at facts and arguments , and three or four listless and supercilious men of fashion , whom anything like ...
Page 557
... look on a great empire merely as a buccaneer would look on a galleon . Had his heart been much worse than it was , his understanding would have preserved him from that extremity of baseness . He was an unscrupulous , perhaps an ...
... look on a great empire merely as a buccaneer would look on a galleon . Had his heart been much worse than it was , his understanding would have preserved him from that extremity of baseness . He was an unscrupulous , perhaps an ...
Contents
ENGLISH HISTORY | 3 |
Introduction by Douglas Jerrold | 18 |
BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES | 405 |
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