Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1890 |
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Page 332
... honour to Jove and Minerva . Philocles , who employs his leisure in making graven images of these deities , is extolled for his piety in a way which con- trasts singularly with the expressions of Isaiah on the same subject . The dead ...
... honour to Jove and Minerva . Philocles , who employs his leisure in making graven images of these deities , is extolled for his piety in a way which con- trasts singularly with the expressions of Isaiah on the same subject . The dead ...
Page 573
... honour of the lady's society . " On this , Voltaire went off into a paroxysm of childish rage . " Was there ever such avarice ? He has hundreds of tubs full of dollars in his vaults , and haggles with me about a poor thousand louis ...
... honour of the lady's society . " On this , Voltaire went off into a paroxysm of childish rage . " Was there ever such avarice ? He has hundreds of tubs full of dollars in his vaults , and haggles with me about a poor thousand louis ...
Page 733
... honour of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called , after his name , Namby Pamby . But the most remarkable members of the little senate , as Pope long afterwards called it , were Richard Steele and Thomas ...
... honour of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called , after his name , Namby Pamby . But the most remarkable members of the little senate , as Pope long afterwards called it , were Richard Steele and Thomas ...
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THE SECOND VOLUME | 12 |
GLADSTONE ON CHURCH AND STATE April 1839 | 107 |
LORD CLIVE Jan 1840 | 180 |
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