Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... he gave his name to our old Nick . Hudibras , Part III . Canto i . But , we believe , there is a schism on this subject among the antiquarians . in The Prince itself . But the most decisive refutation 2 Macaulay's Essays.
... he gave his name to our old Nick . Hudibras , Part III . Canto i . But , we believe , there is a schism on this subject among the antiquarians . in The Prince itself . But the most decisive refutation 2 Macaulay's Essays.
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... believe to be genuine . Neither its merits nor its defects remind us of the reputed author . It was first printed in 1796 , from a manuscript discovered in the celebrated library of the Strozzi . Its genuineness , if we have been ...
... believe to be genuine . Neither its merits nor its defects remind us of the reputed author . It was first printed in 1796 , from a manuscript discovered in the celebrated library of the Strozzi . Its genuineness , if we have been ...
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... believe , carries away from it a more vivid and a more faithful impression of the national character and manners than from more correct accounts . The truth is , that the book belongs rather to ancient than to modern literature . It is ...
... believe , carries away from it a more vivid and a more faithful impression of the national character and manners than from more correct accounts . The truth is , that the book belongs rather to ancient than to modern literature . It is ...
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... believe that , as far as there has been a change , that change has , on the whole , been in favour of the Church of Rome . We cannot , therefore , feel confident that the progress of knowledge will necessarily be fatal to a system which ...
... believe that , as far as there has been a change , that change has , on the whole , been in favour of the Church of Rome . We cannot , therefore , feel confident that the progress of knowledge will necessarily be fatal to a system which ...
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... believe in Ossian ; but he was willing to believe in the second sight . He would not believe in the earthquake of Lisbon ; but he was willing to believe in the Cock Lane ghost . For these reasons we have ceased to wonder at any vagaries ...
... believe in Ossian ; but he was willing to believe in the second sight . He would not believe in the earthquake of Lisbon ; but he was willing to believe in the Cock Lane ghost . For these reasons we have ceased to wonder at any vagaries ...
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