Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... conducted them- selves foolishly in active life , and whose conversation has indicated no superior powers of mind , have left us valuable works . Goldsmith was very justly described by one of his contemporaries as an inspired idiot ...
... conducted them- selves foolishly in active life , and whose conversation has indicated no superior powers of mind , have left us valuable works . Goldsmith was very justly described by one of his contemporaries as an inspired idiot ...
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... conducted , might always afford , a confused wild- ness of care , and a tumultuous hurry of diligence , by which every face was clouded , and every motion agitated . ' The gentle Tranquilla informs us , that she had not passed the ...
... conducted , might always afford , a confused wild- ness of care , and a tumultuous hurry of diligence , by which every face was clouded , and every motion agitated . ' The gentle Tranquilla informs us , that she had not passed the ...
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... conducted under Charles the Second . The licence given to the witnesses for the prosecution , the shameless partiality and ferocious insolence of the judge , the precipitancy and the blind rancour of the jury , remind us of those odious ...
... conducted under Charles the Second . The licence given to the witnesses for the prosecution , the shameless partiality and ferocious insolence of the judge , the precipitancy and the blind rancour of the jury , remind us of those odious ...
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... conduct the business of the petty sessions . We can scarcely express the admiration which we feel for a mind so great , and , at the same time , so healthful and so well proportioned , so willingly contracting itself to the humblest ...
... conduct the business of the petty sessions . We can scarcely express the admiration which we feel for a mind so great , and , at the same time , so healthful and so well proportioned , so willingly contracting itself to the humblest ...
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... conduct of her last Parliament made it clear that one of those great revolutions which policy may guide but cannot stop was in progress . It was on the question of monopolies that the House of Commons gained its first great victory over ...
... conduct of her last Parliament made it clear that one of those great revolutions which policy may guide but cannot stop was in progress . It was on the question of monopolies that the House of Commons gained its first great victory over ...
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