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SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH ( July 1835 ) History of the Revolution in England , in 1688. Comprising a View of the Reign of James the Second , from his Accession to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange , by the late Right Honourable Sir JAMES ...
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH ( July 1835 ) History of the Revolution in England , in 1688. Comprising a View of the Reign of James the Second , from his Accession to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange , by the late Right Honourable Sir JAMES ...
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... Sir James Mackintosh had great ad- vantages over almost every English historian who has written since the time of ... Sir James Mackintosh . Indeed , the superiority of Mr. Fox to Sir James as an orator is hardly more clear than the ...
... Sir James Mackintosh had great ad- vantages over almost every English historian who has written since the time of ... Sir James Mackintosh . Indeed , the superiority of Mr. Fox to Sir James as an orator is hardly more clear than the ...
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... Sir James was not , we think , gifted with poetical imagination . But that lower kind of imagination which is necessary to the historian he had in large measure . It is not the business of the historian to create new worlds and to ...
... Sir James was not , we think , gifted with poetical imagination . But that lower kind of imagination which is necessary to the historian he had in large measure . It is not the business of the historian to create new worlds and to ...
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HALLAMS HISTORY | 3 |
RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES | 31 |
INDEX | 38 |
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