Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. FIRST EDITION 1907 REPRINTED 1909 EDITOR'S NOTE A FRENCH student of English letters ( M.
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. FIRST EDITION 1907 REPRINTED 1909 EDITOR'S NOTE A FRENCH student of English letters ( M.
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... English throughout the world . He stands between philosophic historians and the public very much as journals and ... ( English Men of Letters series ) he devotes a chapter to the Essays and " with the object of giving as much unity as ...
... English throughout the world . He stands between philosophic historians and the public very much as journals and ... ( English Men of Letters series ) he devotes a chapter to the Essays and " with the object of giving as much unity as ...
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... [ English Men of Letters ] , ( 1882 ) . Mark Pattison : Art . " Macaulay " in Encyclopædia Britannica . Leslie Stephen : Hours in a Library [ new ed . 1892 ] , ii . 243–376 . Art . " Macaulay " in Dictionary of National Biography ...
... [ English Men of Letters ] , ( 1882 ) . Mark Pattison : Art . " Macaulay " in Encyclopædia Britannica . Leslie Stephen : Hours in a Library [ new ed . 1892 ] , ii . 243–376 . Art . " Macaulay " in Dictionary of National Biography ...
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... English history , and who can therefore unriddle these little enigmas without difficulty . The manner of the book is , on the whole , not unworthy of the matter . The language , even where most faulty , is weighty and massive , and ...
... English history , and who can therefore unriddle these little enigmas without difficulty . The manner of the book is , on the whole , not unworthy of the matter . The language , even where most faulty , is weighty and massive , and ...
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... English Church , be effaced or patched over . Her doctrines , we well know , do not tend to intolerance . She admits the possibility of salvation out of her own pale . But this circumstance , in itself honourable to her , aggravates the ...
... English Church , be effaced or patched over . Her doctrines , we well know , do not tend to intolerance . She admits the possibility of salvation out of her own pale . But this circumstance , in itself honourable to her , aggravates the ...
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