Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 17
... never hesitates at an oath when he wishes to seduce , who never wants a pretext when he is inclined to betray . His cruelties spring , not from the heat of blood , or the insanity of uncontrolled power , but from deep and cool ...
... never hesitates at an oath when he wishes to seduce , who never wants a pretext when he is inclined to betray . His cruelties spring , not from the heat of blood , or the insanity of uncontrolled power , but from deep and cool ...
Page 189
... never uses arguments himself . He never troubles himself to answer the arguments of his opponents . It has never occurred to him , that a man ought to be able to give some better account of the way in which he has arrived at his ...
... never uses arguments himself . He never troubles himself to answer the arguments of his opponents . It has never occurred to him , that a man ought to be able to give some better account of the way in which he has arrived at his ...
Page 292
... never sullen . Cervantes is never petulant . Demosthenes never comes unseasonably . Dante never stays too long . No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero . No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet . Nothing , then , can ...
... never sullen . Cervantes is never petulant . Demosthenes never comes unseasonably . Dante never stays too long . No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero . No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet . Nothing , then , can ...
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