Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in ...
... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in ...
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... cause and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularity ...
... cause and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularity ...
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... cause , Oldmixon for instance , and Catherine Macaulay , have , to say the least , been more distinguished by zeal than either by candour or by skill . On the other side are the most authoritative and the most popular historical works ...
... cause , Oldmixon for instance , and Catherine Macaulay , have , to say the least , been more distinguished by zeal than either by candour or by skill . On the other side are the most authoritative and the most popular historical works ...
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... cause of Public Liberty . We are not aware that the poet has been charged with personal participa- tion in any of the blameable excesses of that time . The favourite topic of his enemies is the line of conduct which he pursued with ...
... cause of Public Liberty . We are not aware that the poet has been charged with personal participa- tion in any of the blameable excesses of that time . The favourite topic of his enemies is the line of conduct which he pursued with ...
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... cause of freedom . He whom it removed was a captive and a hostage : his heir , to whom the allegiance of every Royalist was instantly transferred , was at large . The Presbyterians could never have been perfectly reconciled to the ...
... cause of freedom . He whom it removed was a captive and a hostage : his heir , to whom the allegiance of every Royalist was instantly transferred , was at large . The Presbyterians could never have been perfectly reconciled to the ...
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