Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... manner in which Mr. Croker makes these random assertions . We do not suspect him of intentionally falsifying history . But of this high literary misdemeanour we do without hesitation accuse him , that he has no adequate sense of the ...
... manner in which Mr. Croker makes these random assertions . We do not suspect him of intentionally falsifying history . But of this high literary misdemeanour we do without hesitation accuse him , that he has no adequate sense of the ...
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... manner . ' I have quoted this anecdote solely with the view of showing to how little credit hearsay anecdotes are in general entitled . Here is a story published by Sir Joseph Mawbey , a member of the House of Commons , and a person ...
... manner . ' I have quoted this anecdote solely with the view of showing to how little credit hearsay anecdotes are in general entitled . Here is a story published by Sir Joseph Mawbey , a member of the House of Commons , and a person ...
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... manner in which the notes are written than of the matter ยท 6 of which they consist . We find in every page words used in wrong senses , and constructions which violate the plainest rules of grammar . We have the vulgarism of mutual ...
... manner in which the notes are written than of the matter ยท 6 of which they consist . We find in every page words used in wrong senses , and constructions which violate the plainest rules of grammar . We have the vulgarism of mutual ...
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... manner . Much that Boswell in- serted in his narrative is , without the shadow of a reason , degraded to the appendix . The editor has also taken upon himself to alter or omit passages which he considers as indecorous . This prudery is ...
... manner . Much that Boswell in- serted in his narrative is , without the shadow of a reason , degraded to the appendix . The editor has also taken upon himself to alter or omit passages which he considers as indecorous . This prudery is ...
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... manners became immutably fixed . We know him , not as he was known to the men of his own generation , but as he was known to men whose father he might have been . That celebrated club of which he was the most distinguished member ...
... manners became immutably fixed . We know him , not as he was known to the men of his own generation , but as he was known to men whose father he might have been . That celebrated club of which he was the most distinguished member ...
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