Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... literary misdemeanour we do without hesitation accuse him , that he has no adequate sense of the obligation which a writer , who professes to relate facts , owes to the public . We accuse him of a negligence and an ignorance analogous ...
... literary misdemeanour we do without hesitation accuse him , that he has no adequate sense of the obligation which a writer , who professes to relate facts , owes to the public . We accuse him of a negligence and an ignorance analogous ...
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... literary and political history , have enabled us to de- tect the mistakes which we have pointed out , and many other mistakes of the same kind . We must say , and we say it with regret , that we do not con- 1 i . 405 . sider the ...
... literary and political history , have enabled us to de- tect the mistakes which we have pointed out , and many other mistakes of the same kind . We must say , and we say it with regret , that we do not con- 1 i . 405 . sider the ...
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... literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses . Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses . If he had not been a great fool , he would never have been a great writer . Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the ...
... literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses . Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses . If he had not been a great fool , he would never have been a great writer . Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the ...
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... and at the beginning of the eighteenth century , more than made up by artificial encouragement , by a vast system of bounties and premiums . There was , perhaps , VOL . II . C never a time at which the rewards of literary merit.
... and at the beginning of the eighteenth century , more than made up by artificial encouragement , by a vast system of bounties and premiums . There was , perhaps , VOL . II . C never a time at which the rewards of literary merit.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. never a time at which the rewards of literary merit were so splendid , at which men who could write well found such easy admittance into the most distinguished society , and to the highest ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. never a time at which the rewards of literary merit were so splendid , at which men who could write well found such easy admittance into the most distinguished society , and to the highest ...
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