Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... writers , is a Herodotus or a Froissart , when compared with Dr. Nares . It is not merely in bulk , but in specific ... writer would employ in supporting a paradox the rules of historical perspective , he has not the faintest notion ...
... writers , is a Herodotus or a Froissart , when compared with Dr. Nares . It is not merely in bulk , but in specific ... writer would employ in supporting a paradox the rules of historical perspective , he has not the faintest notion ...
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... writer ; " but his heart consented not thereto . Yea , he openly opposed it ; though at last yielding to the greatness of Northumberland , in an age when it was present drowning not to swim with the stream . But , as the philosopher ...
... writer ; " but his heart consented not thereto . Yea , he openly opposed it ; though at last yielding to the greatness of Northumberland , in an age when it was present drowning not to swim with the stream . But , as the philosopher ...
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... writers , of being very concise . It must be admitted , however , that , with many of the best qualities of a ... writer . Now an Abbot is the head of a religious house ; an Abbé is quite a different sort of person . It is better ...
... writers , of being very concise . It must be admitted , however , that , with many of the best qualities of a ... writer . Now an Abbot is the head of a religious house ; an Abbé is quite a different sort of person . It is better ...
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... writer was also distinguished as a soldier or a politician . Boscan bore arms with high reputation . Garcilaso de Vega , the author of the sweetest and most graceful pastoral poem of modern times , after a short but splendid military ...
... writer was also distinguished as a soldier or a politician . Boscan bore arms with high reputation . Garcilaso de Vega , the author of the sweetest and most graceful pastoral poem of modern times , after a short but splendid military ...
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... writers call bands of heroic patriots , and what General Stanhope calls a " rascally foot militia . " If the invaders had acted with vigour and judgment , Cadiz would probably have fallen . But the chiefs of the expedition were divided ...
... writers call bands of heroic patriots , and what General Stanhope calls a " rascally foot militia . " If the invaders had acted with vigour and judgment , Cadiz would probably have fallen . But the chiefs of the expedition were divided ...
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