Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. 519 WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN . ( JANUARY , 1833. ) History of the War of the Succession in Spain . By LORD MAHON . 8vo . London : 1832 . THE days when Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by a ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. 519 WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN . ( JANUARY , 1833. ) History of the War of the Succession in Spain . By LORD MAHON . 8vo . London : 1832 . THE days when Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by a ...
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... Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflections in a style too sententious and ora- cular . We will give one instance : " Strange as it seems , experience shows that we usually feel far more ... LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
... Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflections in a style too sententious and ora- cular . We will give one instance : " Strange as it seems , experience shows that we usually feel far more ... LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
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... Lord Mahon's book are precisely the faults which time seldom fails to cure , and that the book , in spite of those faults , is a valuable addition to our historical literature . Whoever wishes to be well acquainted with the morbid ...
... Lord Mahon's book are precisely the faults which time seldom fails to cure , and that the book , in spite of those faults , is a valuable addition to our historical literature . Whoever wishes to be well acquainted with the morbid ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. He had a standing army of fifty thousand excellent troops , at a time when England had not a single battalion in constant pay . His ordinary naval force consisted of a hundred ... LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. He had a standing army of fifty thousand excellent troops , at a time when England had not a single battalion in constant pay . His ordinary naval force consisted of a hundred ... LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. nation was unrivalled both in regular and irregular warfare . The impetuous chivalry of France , the serried phalanx of Switzerland , were alike found wanting when brought face ... LORD MAHON'S WAR ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. nation was unrivalled both in regular and irregular warfare . The impetuous chivalry of France , the serried phalanx of Switzerland , were alike found wanting when brought face ... LORD MAHON'S WAR ...
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