Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... thing , and for a very sufficient reason , because he was killed by the way . Nor was it in 1329 that he set out . Robert Bruce died in 1329 , and the expedition of Douglas took place in the following year , Quand le printemps vint et ...
... thing , and for a very sufficient reason , because he was killed by the way . Nor was it in 1329 that he set out . Robert Bruce died in 1329 , and the expedition of Douglas took place in the following year , Quand le printemps vint et ...
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... things he said , what bitter retorts he provoked , how at one place he was troubled with evil pre- sentiments which came to nothing , how at another place , on waking from a drunken doze , he read the prayer - book and took a hair of ...
... things he said , what bitter retorts he provoked , how at one place he was troubled with evil pre- sentiments which came to nothing , how at another place , on waking from a drunken doze , he read the prayer - book and took a hair of ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. at his fooleries ; all these things he proclaimed to all the world , as if they had been subjects for pride and ostentatious rejoicing . All the caprices of his temper , all the illusions of his ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. at his fooleries ; all these things he proclaimed to all the world , as if they had been subjects for pride and ostentatious rejoicing . All the caprices of his temper , all the illusions of his ...
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... things which are generally considered as making a book valuable , were utterly wanting to him . He had , indeed , a quick observation and a retentive memory . These qualities , if he had been a man of sense and virtue , would scarcely ...
... things which are generally considered as making a book valuable , were utterly wanting to him . He had , indeed , a quick observation and a retentive memory . These qualities , if he had been a man of sense and virtue , would scarcely ...
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... by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths , by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick . Through all these things the ill - dressed , coarse , ngainly pedant had struggled manfully up to eminence and command . It was.
... by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths , by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick . Through all these things the ill - dressed , coarse , ngainly pedant had struggled manfully up to eminence and command . It was.
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