Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... Baron Macaulay. CRITICAL & HISTORICAL ESSAYS BY & THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY IN FIVE & VOLUMES VOLUME II · ५० THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIDHARY 990612A ACTOR , LENGY TILDEN. MDCCCC PUBLISHED BY J.M.DENT . • AND CO : ALDINE HOUSE LONDON W.C.
... Baron Macaulay. CRITICAL & HISTORICAL ESSAYS BY & THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY IN FIVE & VOLUMES VOLUME II · ५० THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIDHARY 990612A ACTOR , LENGY TILDEN. MDCCCC PUBLISHED BY J.M.DENT . • AND CO : ALDINE HOUSE LONDON W.C.
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... London : 1831 . THIS work has greatly disappointed us . Whatever faults we may have been prepared to find in it , we fully expected that it would be a valuable addition to English literature ; that it would contain many curious facts ...
... London : 1831 . THIS work has greatly disappointed us . Whatever faults we may have been prepared to find in it , we fully expected that it would be a valuable addition to English literature ; that it would contain many curious facts ...
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... London , so curious to know everybody who was talked about , that , Tory and high Churchman as he was , he manœuvred , we have been told , for an introduction to Tom Paine , so vain of the most childish distinctions , that when he had ...
... London , so curious to know everybody who was talked about , that , Tory and high Churchman as he was , he manœuvred , we have been told , for an introduction to Tom Paine , so vain of the most childish distinctions , that when he had ...
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... London precisely at the time when the condition of a man of letters was most miserable and degraded . It was a dark night be- tween two sunny days . The age of patronage had passed away . The age of general curiosity and in- telligence ...
... London precisely at the time when the condition of a man of letters was most miserable and degraded . It was a dark night be- tween two sunny days . The age of patronage had passed away . The age of general curiosity and in- telligence ...
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... London , clerk of the council to the Prince of Wales , and secretary of the Presentations to the Lord Chancellor . Hughes was secretary to the Com- missions of the Peace . Ambrose Philips was judge of the Prerogative Court in Ireland ...
... London , clerk of the council to the Prince of Wales , and secretary of the Presentations to the Lord Chancellor . Hughes was secretary to the Com- missions of the Peace . Ambrose Philips was judge of the Prerogative Court in Ireland ...
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