Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but interwoven . They are the warp and the woof of his mind ; and their combination , like that of the ...
... once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but interwoven . They are the warp and the woof of his mind ; and their combination , like that of the ...
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... once besieged their sovereign in his own palace , and extorted from him the most humiliating concessions . The Sultans have often been compelled to propitiate the furious rabble of Constantinople with the head of an unpopular Vizier ...
... once besieged their sovereign in his own palace , and extorted from him the most humiliating concessions . The Sultans have often been compelled to propitiate the furious rabble of Constantinople with the head of an unpopular Vizier ...
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... once more . Their common profession was a bond of union not to be for- gotten even when they were engaged in the service of contending parties . Hence it was that operations , languid and indecisive beyond any recorded in history ...
... once more . Their common profession was a bond of union not to be for- gotten even when they were engaged in the service of contending parties . Hence it was that operations , languid and indecisive beyond any recorded in history ...
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... once enterprising and timid , men equally skilled in detecting the purposes of others , and in concealing their own , men who must have been formid- able enemies and unsafe allies , but men , at the same time , whose tempers were mild ...
... once enterprising and timid , men equally skilled in detecting the purposes of others , and in concealing their own , men who must have been formid- able enemies and unsafe allies , but men , at the same time , whose tempers were mild ...
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... once , at the moment when Cæsar's splendid villainy achieved its most signal triumph , when he caught in one snare and crushed at one blow all his most formidable rivals ; and again when , exhausted by disease and overwhelmed by ...
... once , at the moment when Cæsar's splendid villainy achieved its most signal triumph , when he caught in one snare and crushed at one blow all his most formidable rivals ; and again when , exhausted by disease and overwhelmed by ...
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