Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... haste . The author has sometimes , like other con- tributors to periodical works , been under the necessity of writing at a distance from all books and from all advisers ; of trusting to his memory for facts , viii PREFACE .
... haste . The author has sometimes , like other con- tributors to periodical works , been under the necessity of writing at a distance from all books and from all advisers ; of trusting to his memory for facts , viii PREFACE .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. advisers ; of trusting to his memory for facts , dates , and quotations ; and of sending manuscripts to the post without reading them over . What he has com- posed thus rapidly has often been as ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. advisers ; of trusting to his memory for facts , dates , and quotations ; and of sending manuscripts to the post without reading them over . What he has com- posed thus rapidly has often been as ...
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... 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 separating ...
... 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 separating ...
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... facts , and content themselves with calling testimony to character . He had so many private virtues ! And had James the Second no private virtues ? Was Oliver Cromwell , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of ...
... facts , and content themselves with calling testimony to character . He had so many private virtues ! And had James the Second no private virtues ? Was Oliver Cromwell , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of ...
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... fact the necessary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other . One overpowering senti- ment had subjected to itself pity and hatred , ambition and fear . Death had lost its terrors ...
... fact the necessary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other . One overpowering senti- ment had subjected to itself pity and hatred , ambition and fear . Death had lost its terrors ...
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