Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... general observation should be pronounced too just , by the very person who admits that it is not univers- ally just , is not a little odd.'3 1 v . 233 . 2 iv . 323 . siii . 228 . A very large proportion of the two thousand five hundred.
... general observation should be pronounced too just , by the very person who admits that it is not univers- ally just , is not a little odd.'3 1 v . 233 . 2 iv . 323 . siii . 228 . A very large proportion of the two thousand five hundred.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. A very large proportion of the two thousand five hundred notes which the editor boasts of having added to those of Boswell and Malone consists of the flattest and poorest reflections ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. A very large proportion of the two thousand five hundred notes which the editor boasts of having added to those of Boswell and Malone consists of the flattest and poorest reflections ...
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... hundred years ago , no 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 ...
... hundred years ago , no 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 ...
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... hundred pounds to the fortune of one of his babies because she was not scared at Johnson's ugly face , how he was frightened out of his wits at sea , and how the sailors quieted him as they would have quieted a child , how tipsy he was ...
... hundred pounds to the fortune of one of his babies because she was not scared at Johnson's ugly face , how he was frightened out of his wits at sea , and how the sailors quieted him as they would have quieted a child , how tipsy he was ...
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... hundred notes on the life of Johnson , and yet scarcely ever mentions the biographer whose performance he has taken such pains to illustrate , without some ex- pression of contempt . An ill - natured man Boswell certainly was not . Yet ...
... hundred notes on the life of Johnson , and yet scarcely ever mentions the biographer whose performance he has taken such pains to illustrate , without some ex- pression of contempt . An ill - natured man Boswell certainly was not . Yet ...
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