Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... opinions . That Gibbon when a lad at Oxford turned Catholic is well known . It is said , ' cried Johnson , laughing , ' that he has been a Mahommedan . ' ' This sarcasm , " says the editor , ' probably alludes to the tenderness with ...
... opinions . That Gibbon when a lad at Oxford turned Catholic is well known . It is said , ' cried Johnson , laughing , ' that he has been a Mahommedan . ' ' This sarcasm , " says the editor , ' probably alludes to the tenderness with ...
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... opinion of those with whom he lived during the last twenty years of his life , a complete original . An original he was , un- doubtedly , in some respects . But if we possessed full information concerning those who shared his early ...
... opinion of those with whom he lived during the last twenty years of his life , a complete original . An original he was , un- doubtedly , in some respects . But if we possessed full information concerning those who shared his early ...
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... opinion seems to have been that forms of government have little or no influence on the happiness of society . This opinion , erroneous as it is , ought at least to have preserved him from all intemperance on political questions . It did ...
... opinion seems to have been that forms of government have little or no influence on the happiness of society . This opinion , erroneous as it is , ought at least to have preserved him from all intemperance on political questions . It did ...
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... opinion , much such a person as a Cockney who made his mark , much such a person as black Frank before he went to school , and far inferior to a parish clerk or a printer's devil . Johnson's friends have allowed that he carried to a ...
... opinion , much such a person as a Cockney who made his mark , much such a person as black Frank before he went to school , and far inferior to a parish clerk or a printer's devil . Johnson's friends have allowed that he carried to a ...
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... opinion , to use the fine expression of Lord Plunkett , an old almanack ; historians could , as he conceived , claim no higher dignity than that of almanack - makers ; and his favourite historians were those who , like Lord Hailes ...
... opinion , to use the fine expression of Lord Plunkett , an old almanack ; historians could , as he conceived , claim no higher dignity than that of almanack - makers ; and his favourite historians were those who , like Lord Hailes ...
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