Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... person may see by looking at any number of it , was not established till some years after this affair . For this blunder there is , we must acknowledge , some excuse ; for it certainly seems almost incredible to a person living in our ...
... person may see by looking at any number of it , was not established till some years after this affair . For this blunder there is , we must acknowledge , some excuse ; for it certainly seems almost incredible to a person living in our ...
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... person who has ever perused so noble and pathetic a story can have utterly forgotten all its most striking circumstances . 6 ' Lord Townshend , ' says Mr. Croker , was not secretary of state till 1720.'2 Can Mr. Croker possibly be ...
... person who has ever perused so noble and pathetic a story can have utterly forgotten all its most striking circumstances . 6 ' Lord Townshend , ' says Mr. Croker , was not secretary of state till 1720.'2 Can Mr. Croker possibly be ...
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... person every way worthy of credit , who says he had it from Garrick . Now mark : Johnson's visit to Oxford , about the time of his doctor's degree , was in 1754 , the first time he had been there since he left the university . But ...
... person every way worthy of credit , who says he had it from Garrick . Now mark : Johnson's visit to Oxford , about the time of his doctor's degree , was in 1754 , the first time he had been there since he left the university . But ...
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... person who is ignorant of what almost everybody knows can know that of which almost everybody is ignorant . We did not open this book with any wish to find blemishes in it . We have made no curious researches . The work itself , and a ...
... person who is ignorant of what almost everybody knows can know that of which almost everybody is ignorant . We did not open this book with any wish to find blemishes in it . We have made no curious researches . The work itself , and a ...
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... 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.
... 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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