Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY 111 SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . MR . ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS 215 267 CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS 291 MOORE'S LIFE OF LORd Byron 307 CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON 348 CRITICAL ...
... HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY 111 SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . MR . ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS 215 267 CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS 291 MOORE'S LIFE OF LORd Byron 307 CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON 348 CRITICAL ...
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... HALLAM . In 2 vols . 1827 . HISTORY , at least in its state of ideal perfection , is a com- pound of poetry and ... HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.
... HALLAM . In 2 vols . 1827 . HISTORY , at least in its state of ideal perfection , is a com- pound of poetry and ... HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.
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... of cook and coachman distinct . The dinner will be better dressed , and the horses better managed . But where the two situations are united , as in the Maître Jacques of Molière , we do not see that the 112 HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY .
... of cook and coachman distinct . The dinner will be better dressed , and the horses better managed . But where the two situations are united , as in the Maître Jacques of Molière , we do not see that the 112 HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY .
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... Hallam a critical and argumen- tative history . Both are occupied with the same matter . But the former looks at it with the eye of a sculptor . His intention is to give an express and lively image of its external form . The latter is ...
... Hallam a critical and argumen- tative history . Both are occupied with the same matter . But the former looks at it with the eye of a sculptor . His intention is to give an express and lively image of its external form . The latter is ...
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... Hallam's mind corresponds strikingly with that of his style . His work is eminently judicial . Its whole spirit is that of the bench , not that of the bar . He sums up with a calm , steady impartiality , turning neither to the right nor ...
... Hallam's mind corresponds strikingly with that of his style . His work is eminently judicial . Its whole spirit is that of the bench , not that of the bar . He sums up with a calm , steady impartiality , turning neither to the right nor ...
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