Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... question , whose death took place in 1806. It is notorious , indeed , that the biographer of Beattie 3 iv . 321 . 5 ii . 262 . 1 Vol . i . 394 . 4 iv . 428 . 2 i . 404 . MR . CROKER'S DATES 5 lived just long enough to SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... question , whose death took place in 1806. It is notorious , indeed , that the biographer of Beattie 3 iv . 321 . 5 ii . 262 . 1 Vol . i . 394 . 4 iv . 428 . 2 i . 404 . MR . CROKER'S DATES 5 lived just long enough to SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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... questions of style and metre . From one blunder , a blunder which no good scholar would have made , Mr. Croker was saved , as he informs us , by Sir Robert Peel , who quoted a passage exactly in point from Horace . We heartily wish that ...
... questions of style and metre . From one blunder , a blunder which no good scholar would have made , Mr. Croker was saved , as he informs us , by Sir Robert Peel , who quoted a passage exactly in point from Horace . We heartily wish that ...
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... questions . It did not , however , preserve him from the lowest , fiercest , and most absurd extravagances of party spirit , from rants which , in everything but the diction , resembled those of Squire Western . He was , as a politician ...
... questions . It did not , however , preserve him from the lowest , fiercest , and most absurd extravagances of party spirit , from rants which , in everything but the diction , resembled those of Squire Western . He was , as a politician ...
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... question arises as to the postulates on which their whole system rests , if they are called upon to vindicate the fundamental maxims of that system which they have passed their lives in studying , these very men often talk the language ...
... question arises as to the postulates on which their whole system rests , if they are called upon to vindicate the fundamental maxims of that system which they have passed their lives in studying , these very men often talk the language ...
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... questions like a lawyer , not like a legislator . He never examined founda- tions where a point was already ruled . His whole code of criticism rested on pure assumption , for which he sometimes quoted a precedent or authority , but ...
... questions like a lawyer , not like a legislator . He never examined founda- tions where a point was already ruled . His whole code of criticism rested on pure assumption , for which he sometimes quoted a precedent or authority , but ...
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