Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious men . It would be easy to show that neither of these solutions is consistent with many ...
... Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious men . It would be easy to show that neither of these solutions is consistent with many ...
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... Lord Bacon most justly observes , has never disturbed the peace of the world . It furnishes no motive for action . It inspires no enthusiasm . It has no missionaries , no crusaders , no martyrs . If the Patriarch of the Holy ...
... Lord Bacon most justly observes , has never disturbed the peace of the world . It furnishes no motive for action . It inspires no enthusiasm . It has no missionaries , no crusaders , no martyrs . If the Patriarch of the Holy ...
Page 73
... LORD MAHON . THE days when Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by a Person of Honour , and Romances of M. Scuderi , done into English by a Person of Quality , were attractive to readers and profitable to booksellers , have long gone by ...
... LORD MAHON . THE days when Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by a Person of Honour , and Romances of M. Scuderi , done into English by a Person of Quality , were attractive to readers and profitable to booksellers , have long gone by ...
Page 74
... Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflec- tions in a style too sententious and oracular . We shall give one instance : Strange as it seems , experience shows that we usually feel far more animosity against those ...
... Lord Mahon is also a little too fond of uttering moral reflec- tions in a style too sententious and oracular . We shall give one instance : Strange as it seems , experience shows that we usually feel far more animosity against those ...
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... , English statesmen continued to look with great dread on the maritime power of Philip . " The King of Spain , " said the Lord Keeper to the two Houses in 1593 , " since he hath usurped upon the Kingdom War of the Succession in Spain 75.
... , English statesmen continued to look with great dread on the maritime power of Philip . " The King of Spain , " said the Lord Keeper to the two Houses in 1593 , " since he hath usurped upon the Kingdom War of the Succession in Spain 75.
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