Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... opinion seems to have been that poor Robert was a dunce , if not a reprobate . His family expected nothing good from such slender parts and such a headstrong temper . It is not strange , therefore , that they gladly accepted for him ...
... opinion seems to have been that poor Robert was a dunce , if not a reprobate . His family expected nothing good from such slender parts and such a headstrong temper . It is not strange , therefore , that they gladly accepted for him ...
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... opinion , from the knowledge I have of the gentleman , he deserved and might expect from his conduct every thing as it fell out ; a man of an undaunted resolution , of a cool temper , and of a presence of mind which never left him in ...
... opinion , from the knowledge I have of the gentleman , he deserved and might expect from his conduct every thing as it fell out ; a man of an undaunted resolution , of a cool temper , and of a presence of mind which never left him in ...
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... opinion , that he could effect nothing against such adversaries , if he was content to be bound by ties from which they were free , if he went on telling truth , and hearing none , if he fulfilled , to his own hurt , all his engagements ...
... opinion , that he could effect nothing against such adversaries , if he was content to be bound by ties from which they were free , if he went on telling truth , and hearing none , if he fulfilled , to his own hurt , all his engagements ...
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... opinion of Sir John Malcolm , who is desirous to state it as low as possible , exceed- ed forty thousand pounds ; and incomes of forty thousand pounds at the time of the accession of George the Third were at least as rare as incomes of ...
... opinion of Sir John Malcolm , who is desirous to state it as low as possible , exceed- ed forty thousand pounds ; and incomes of forty thousand pounds at the time of the accession of George the Third were at least as rare as incomes of ...
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... opinion of the best English lawyers , valid . It had been made by exactly the same authority from which the Company had received their chief possessions in Bengal , and the Company had long acquiesced in it . The Directors , how- ever ...
... opinion of the best English lawyers , valid . It had been made by exactly the same authority from which the Company had received their chief possessions in Bengal , and the Company had long acquiesced in it . The Directors , how- ever ...
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