Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... taken the slightest pains to investigate the truth of his assertions , or if he had even been well acquainted with the book on which he undertook to comment . We will give a few instances . Mr. Croker tells us in a note that Derrick ...
... taken the slightest pains to investigate the truth of his assertions , or if he had even been well acquainted with the book on which he undertook to comment . We will give a few instances . Mr. Croker tells us in a note that Derrick ...
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... taken the trouble to read with attention that very passage in Park's Royal and Noble Authors which he cites as his authority , he would have seen that the manuscript was given up to the government . Even if this memoir had been printed ...
... taken the trouble to read with attention that very passage in Park's Royal and Noble Authors which he cites as his authority , he would have seen that the manuscript was given up to the government . Even if this memoir had been printed ...
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... taken place in Gibbon's religious 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 ...
... taken place in Gibbon's religious 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 ...
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... taken place , and , in all probability , did take place . The only real objection to the story Mr. Croker has missed . 4 iii . 326 . 1 Vol . v . 409 . 2 i . 262 . 3 iii . 205 . CRASSA IGNORANTIA 13 Boswell states , apparently on the ...
... taken place , and , in all probability , did take place . The only real objection to the story Mr. Croker has missed . 4 iii . 326 . 1 Vol . v . 409 . 2 i . 262 . 3 iii . 205 . CRASSA IGNORANTIA 13 Boswell states , apparently on the ...
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... taken upon himself to alter or omit passages which he considers as indecorous . This prudery is quite unintelligible to us . There is nothing immoral in Boswell's book , nothing which tends to inflame the passions . He sometimes uses ...
... taken upon himself to alter or omit passages which he considers as indecorous . This prudery is quite unintelligible to us . There is nothing immoral in Boswell's book , nothing which tends to inflame the passions . He sometimes uses ...
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