Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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... mind , and went to the oar . Guicciardini , though certainly not the most amusing of writers , is a Herodotus or a Frois- sart , when compared with Dr. Nares . It is not merely in bulk , but in specific gravity also , that these memoirs ...
... mind , and went to the oar . Guicciardini , though certainly not the most amusing of writers , is a Herodotus or a Frois- sart , when compared with Dr. Nares . It is not merely in bulk , but in specific gravity also , that these memoirs ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. whose minds were made up on either side , who were inclined to make any ... mind to its inmost depths . During the same century , a scandalous schism in the Catholic Church had diminished , in ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. whose minds were made up on either side , who were inclined to make any ... mind to its inmost depths . During the same century , a scandalous schism in the Catholic Church had diminished , in ...
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... mind : -not that he was one of the tribe of Boswells , those literary Gibeonites , born to be hewers of wood and drawers of water to the 1 Souvenirs sur Mirabeau , et sur les deux Premières Assemblées Législa tives . Par ETIENNE DUMONT ...
... mind : -not that he was one of the tribe of Boswells , those literary Gibeonites , born to be hewers of wood and drawers of water to the 1 Souvenirs sur Mirabeau , et sur les deux Premières Assemblées Législa tives . Par ETIENNE DUMONT ...
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... mind was vigorous , comprehensive , subtle , fertile of arguments , fertile of illustrations . But he spoke in an unknown tongue ; and , that the congregation might be edified , it was necessary that some brother having the gift of ...
... mind was vigorous , comprehensive , subtle , fertile of arguments , fertile of illustrations . But he spoke in an unknown tongue ; and , that the congregation might be edified , it was necessary that some brother having the gift of ...
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... mind would have resembled the fertility of those vast American wilder- nesses in which blossoms and decays a rich but unprofi- table vegetation , " wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand , neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his ...
... mind would have resembled the fertility of those vast American wilder- nesses in which blossoms and decays a rich but unprofi- table vegetation , " wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand , neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his ...
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