Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... political party . By a strange coincidence of cir- cumstances , it happened that there was a total change of administration between his condemnation and his death so that one party presided at his trial , and another at his execution ...
... political party . By a strange coincidence of cir- cumstances , it happened that there was a total change of administration between his condemnation and his death so that one party presided at his trial , and another at his execution ...
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... 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 authority of Mr ...
... 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 authority of Mr ...
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... political life that he has forgotten his Greek and Latin . But he becomes justly ridiculous if , when no longer able to construe a plain sentence , he affects to sit in judgment on the most delicate questions of style and metre . From ...
... political life that he has forgotten his Greek and Latin . But he becomes justly ridiculous if , when no longer able to construe a plain sentence , he affects to sit in judgment on the most delicate questions of style and metre . From ...
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... political philosophy are likely to be im- provements . Some errors have been detected by writers of this generation in the speculations of Adam Smith . A short cut has been made to much knowledge at which Sir Isaac Newton arrived ...
... political philosophy are likely to be im- provements . Some errors have been detected by writers of this generation in the speculations of Adam Smith . A short cut has been made to much knowledge at which Sir Isaac Newton arrived ...
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... politics , religion , or society , which is not either commonplace or absurd . His disser- tations on hereditary gentility , on the slave - trade , and on the entailing of landed estates , may serve as examples . To say that these ...
... politics , religion , or society , which is not either commonplace or absurd . His disser- tations on hereditary gentility , on the slave - trade , and on the entailing of landed estates , may serve as examples . To say that these ...
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