Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and CorrectionsLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 |
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... LADY HOLLAND . With Selections from his Letters . Edited by Mrs. AUSTIN . In 2 vols . London : 1855 . THE publication of this book affords us the oppor- tunity for which we have been anxiously watching , which we must ere long have ...
... LADY HOLLAND . With Selections from his Letters . Edited by Mrs. AUSTIN . In 2 vols . London : 1855 . THE publication of this book affords us the oppor- tunity for which we have been anxiously watching , which we must ere long have ...
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... the volume , for none of these things will he find therein . " So stands the first sentence of Lady Holland's pre- face , and such an announcement at starting must be admitted to be the reverse of a temptation or 2 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH :
... the volume , for none of these things will he find therein . " So stands the first sentence of Lady Holland's pre- face , and such an announcement at starting must be admitted to be the reverse of a temptation or 2 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH :
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... Lady Lasked me about my grandfather , I told her he disappeared about the time of the Assizes , and we asked no questions . " This , we need hardly say , was a jocular fabrication ; for his descent , without being noble , was ...
... Lady Lasked me about my grandfather , I told her he disappeared about the time of the Assizes , and we asked no questions . " This , we need hardly say , was a jocular fabrication ; for his descent , without being noble , was ...
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Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections Abraham Hayward. parent , and Lady Holland , unappalled by Sir David Brewster's authority , still retains hopes of being able to claim Sir Isaac Newton for an ancestor . Her account ...
Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections Abraham Hayward. parent , and Lady Holland , unappalled by Sir David Brewster's authority , still retains hopes of being able to claim Sir Isaac Newton for an ancestor . Her account ...
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... lady asked him what a false quan- tity was , he explained it to be in a man the same as a faux pas in a woman . On leaving Winchester , he was placed for six months at Mont Villiers , in Normandy , to perfect his knowledge of French ...
... lady asked him what a false quan- tity was , he explained it to be in a man the same as a faux pas in a woman . On leaving Winchester , he was placed for six months at Mont Villiers , in Normandy , to perfect his knowledge of French ...
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