Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious men . It would be easy to show that neither of these solutions is consistent with many ...
... Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious men . It would be easy to show that neither of these solutions is consistent with many ...
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... LORD Mahon . 8vo . London : 1832 . THE days when Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by a Person of Honour , and Romances of M. Scuderi , done into English by a Person of Quality , were attractive to readers and profitable to booksellers ...
... LORD Mahon . 8vo . London : 1832 . THE days when Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by a Person of Honour , and Romances of M. Scuderi , done into English by a Person of Quality , were attractive to readers and profitable to booksellers ...
Page 74
... Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflec- tions in a style too sententious and oracular . We shall give one instance : Strange as it seems , experience shows that we usually feel far more animosity against those ...
... Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflec- tions in a style too sententious and oracular . We shall give one instance : Strange as it seems , experience shows that we usually feel far more animosity against those ...
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... English statesmen continued to look with great dread on the maritime power of Philip . King of Spain , " said the Lord Keeper to the two Houses in " The ... 1593 , " since he hath usurped upon the War of the Succession in Spain 75.
... English statesmen continued to look with great dread on the maritime power of Philip . King of Spain , " said the Lord Keeper to the two Houses in " The ... 1593 , " since he hath usurped upon the War of the Succession in Spain 75.
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... Lord Mahon explains the financial situation of Spain by no means satisfies us . " It will be found , " says he , " that those individuals deriving their chief income from mines , whose yearly produce is uncertain and varying , and seems ...
... Lord Mahon explains the financial situation of Spain by no means satisfies us . " It will be found , " says he , " that those individuals deriving their chief income from mines , whose yearly produce is uncertain and varying , and seems ...
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