Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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Page viii
... present edition of the Essays is due . In his monograph on Macaulay ( English Men of Letters series ) he devotes a chapter to the Essays and " with the object of giving as much unity as possible to a subject necessarily wanting it ...
... present edition of the Essays is due . In his monograph on Macaulay ( English Men of Letters series ) he devotes a chapter to the Essays and " with the object of giving as much unity as possible to a subject necessarily wanting it ...
Page ix
... present edition to the " Essays " usually so - called . These have also been reprinted in the chronological arrangement ordinarily followed ( see below ) in The Temple Classics ( 5 vols . 1900 ) , where an exhaustive bibliography , etc ...
... present edition to the " Essays " usually so - called . These have also been reprinted in the chronological arrangement ordinarily followed ( see below ) in The Temple Classics ( 5 vols . 1900 ) , where an exhaustive bibliography , etc ...
Page 1
... present , to bring the distant near , to place us in the society of a great man or on the eminence which overlooks the field of a mighty battle , to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined ...
... present , to bring the distant near , to place us in the society of a great man or on the eminence which overlooks the field of a mighty battle , to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined ...
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... presents no scene to the imagination ; but it gives us exact information as to the bearings of the various points , and is a more useful companion to the traveller or the general than the painted landscape could be , though it were the ...
... presents no scene to the imagination ; but it gives us exact information as to the bearings of the various points , and is a more useful companion to the traveller or the general than the painted landscape could be , though it were the ...
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... present self or his former self , the pensioner that is , or the Jacobin that has been . But he is unable to comprehend a writer who , steadily attached to principles , is indifferent about names and badges , and who judges of ...
... present self or his former self , the pensioner that is , or the Jacobin that has been . But he is unable to comprehend a writer who , steadily attached to principles , is indifferent about names and badges , and who judges of ...
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