Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... seems almost incredible to a person living in our time that any human being should ever have stooped to fight with a writer in the Morning Post . James de Duglas , ' says Mr. Croker , was requested by King Robert Bruce , in his last ...
... seems almost incredible to a person living in our time that any human being should ever have stooped to fight with a writer in the Morning Post . James de Duglas , ' says Mr. Croker , was requested by King Robert Bruce , in his last ...
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... seems to have been no contemptible Latinist . Is not Philarchus a very happy term to express the paternal and kindly authority of the head of a clan ? ' 2 The composition of this eminent Latinist , short as it is , contains several ...
... seems to have been no contemptible Latinist . Is not Philarchus a very happy term to express the paternal and kindly authority of the head of a clan ? ' 2 The composition of this eminent Latinist , short as it is , contains several ...
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... seems not to have understood ) probably mean OvnToi piλoi , departed friends.'1 Johnson was not a first - rate Greek scholar ; but he knew more Greek than most boys when they leave school ; and no schoolboy could venture to use the word ...
... seems not to have understood ) probably mean OvnToi piλoi , departed friends.'1 Johnson was not a first - rate Greek scholar ; but he knew more Greek than most boys when they leave school ; and no schoolboy could venture to use the word ...
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... seems not quite clear . ' And he proceeds to talk about the generation of insects , about bursting into gaudier life , and Heaven knows what.2 6 There is a still stranger instance of the editor's talent for finding out difficulty in ...
... seems not quite clear . ' And he proceeds to talk about the generation of insects , about bursting into gaudier life , and Heaven knows what.2 6 There is a still stranger instance of the editor's talent for finding out difficulty in ...
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... seem to be most sincere . There is scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes and of dark and tempestuous passions than proclaim all his little vanities and wild fancies . It would be easier to find a person ...
... seem to be most sincere . There is scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes and of dark and tempestuous passions than proclaim all his little vanities and wild fancies . It would be easier to find a person ...
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