The Works of Walter Bagehot ...: With Memoirs by R.H. Hutton : Now First Published in Full by the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, المجلد 2Travelers Insurance Company, 1891 |
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... Scott or a Macaulay can ac- cumulate on the history of a hundred . Gibbon has done his best to avoid the dryness natural to such an attempt : he inserts as much detail as his limits will permit ; selects for more full description ...
... Scott or a Macaulay can ac- cumulate on the history of a hundred . Gibbon has done his best to avoid the dryness natural to such an attempt : he inserts as much detail as his limits will permit ; selects for more full description ...
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... Scott is an example of this : every habit and practice of old Scotland was insepa- rably in his mind associated with genial enjoyment ; to propose to touch one of her institutions , to abolish one of those practices , was to touch a ...
... Scott is an example of this : every habit and practice of old Scotland was insepa- rably in his mind associated with genial enjoyment ; to propose to touch one of her institutions , to abolish one of those practices , was to touch a ...
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... Scott , in the same manner , has used those fragments of truth which histo- rians have scornfully thrown behind them , in a manner which may well excite their envy ; he has constructed out of their gleanings , works which , even ...
... Scott , in the same manner , has used those fragments of truth which histo- rians have scornfully thrown behind them , in a manner which may well excite their envy ; he has constructed out of their gleanings , works which , even ...
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... Scott Sir Walter was always making fun of him ; telling odd tales of his abstraction and singularity ; not obscurely hinting that a man who could hardly put on his own coat , and certainly could not buy his own dinner , was scarcely fit ...
... Scott Sir Walter was always making fun of him ; telling odd tales of his abstraction and singularity ; not obscurely hinting that a man who could hardly put on his own coat , and certainly could not buy his own dinner , was scarcely fit ...
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... Scott , for example , keeps before you the mind of some one person , that of Morton in " Old Mortality , " of Rebecca in " Ivanhoe , " of Lovel in " The Antiquary , " -whose fortunes and mental changes are the central incidents , whose ...
... Scott , for example , keeps before you the mind of some one person , that of Morton in " Old Mortality , " of Rebecca in " Ivanhoe , " of Lovel in " The Antiquary , " -whose fortunes and mental changes are the central incidents , whose ...
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