Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 7
... human being should ever have stooped to fight with a writer in the Morning Post . James de Duglas , ' says Mr. Croker , was requested by King Robert Bruce , in his last hours , to repair , with his heart , to Jerusalem , and humbly to ...
... human being should ever have stooped to fight with a writer in the Morning Post . James de Duglas , ' says Mr. Croker , was requested by King Robert Bruce , in his last hours , to repair , with his heart , to Jerusalem , and humbly to ...
Page 19
... human dulness to miss the meaning of the lines so completely . Sir William distributes twenty - three hours among various employ- ments . One hour is thus left for devotion . The reader expects that the verse will end with and one to ...
... human dulness to miss the meaning of the lines so completely . Sir William distributes twenty - three hours among various employ- ments . One hour is thus left for devotion . The reader expects that the verse will end with and one to ...
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... human mind as they were written . We have this feeling even about scientific treatises ; though we know that the sciences are always in a state of progression , and that the alterations made by a modern editor in an old book on any ...
... human mind as they were written . We have this feeling even about scientific treatises ; though we know that the sciences are always in a state of progression , and that the alterations made by a modern editor in an old book on any ...
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... human being can doubt that Mr. Hume would have made great use of those books in his History of England . But would it , on that account , be judicious in a writer of our own times to publish an edition of Hume's History of England , in ...
... human being can doubt that Mr. Hume would have made great use of those books in his History of England . But would it , on that account , be judicious in a writer of our own times to publish an edition of Hume's History of England , in ...
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... human intellect so strange a phænomenon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived , and he has beaten them all . He was , if we are to give any ...
... human intellect so strange a phænomenon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived , and he has beaten them all . He was , if we are to give any ...
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