Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... eminent Latinist , short as it is , contains several words that are just as much Coptic as Latin , to say nothing of the incorrect structure of the sentence . The word Philarchus , even if it were a happy term expressing a paternal and ...
... eminent Latinist , short as it is , contains several words that are just as much Coptic as Latin , to say nothing of the incorrect structure of the sentence . The word Philarchus , even if it were a happy term expressing a paternal and ...
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... eminent exceptions . ' Mr. Croker is puzzled by Boswell's very natural and simple language . That a general observation should be pronounced too just , by the very person who admits that it is not univers- ally just , is not a little ...
... eminent exceptions . ' Mr. Croker is puzzled by Boswell's very natural and simple language . That a general observation should be pronounced too just , by the very person who admits that it is not univers- ally just , is not a little ...
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... we have a plentiful supply of sentences resembling those which we subjoin . Markland , who , with Jortin and Thirlby , Johnson calls three contemporaries of great MR . CROKER'S OMISSIONS 6 21 eminence . ' 1 20 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... we have a plentiful supply of sentences resembling those which we subjoin . Markland , who , with Jortin and Thirlby , Johnson calls three contemporaries of great MR . CROKER'S OMISSIONS 6 21 eminence . ' 1 20 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. MR . CROKER'S OMISSIONS 6 21 eminence . ' 1 6 Warburton himself did not feel , as Mr. Boswell was disposed to think he did , kindly or gratefully of Johnson . It was him that Horace Walpole ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. MR . CROKER'S OMISSIONS 6 21 eminence . ' 1 6 Warburton himself did not feel , as Mr. Boswell was disposed to think he did , kindly or gratefully of Johnson . It was him that Horace Walpole ...
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... eminent man , and begging to be spit upon and trampled upon . He was always earning some ridiculous nickname , and then binding it as a crown unto him , ' not merely in metaphor , but literally . He exhibited himself , at the Shakspeare ...
... eminent man , and begging to be spit upon and trampled upon . He was always earning some ridiculous nickname , and then binding it as a crown unto him , ' not merely in metaphor , but literally . He exhibited himself , at the Shakspeare ...
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