Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلدات 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... side . He liked a maiden assize , and came away with white gloves , after sitting in judgment on batches of the most notorious offenders . He had a quick eye for the redeeming parts of a character , and a large toleration for the ...
... side . He liked a maiden assize , and came away with white gloves , after sitting in judgment on batches of the most notorious offenders . He had a quick eye for the redeeming parts of a character , and a large toleration for the ...
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... side , to pick out blunders in a composition written by a youth of twenty- one , on the occasion alluded to . He finds one mistake- such a mistake as the greatest scholar might commit when in haste , and as the veriest schoolboy would ...
... side , to pick out blunders in a composition written by a youth of twenty- one , on the occasion alluded to . He finds one mistake- such a mistake as the greatest scholar might commit when in haste , and as the veriest schoolboy would ...
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... side . No single passage can give any idea of this equally diffused ignorance , this omninescience , if we may carry the “ hardi- hood of our vocabulary " so far as to coin a new word for what is to us quite a new thing . We take the ...
... side . No single passage can give any idea of this equally diffused ignorance , this omninescience , if we may carry the “ hardi- hood of our vocabulary " so far as to coin a new word for what is to us quite a new thing . We take the ...
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... side of progress . From the great advances which European society has made , during the last four centuries , in every species of knowledge , we infer , not that there is no more room for improvement , but that in every science which de ...
... side of progress . From the great advances which European society has made , during the last four centuries , in every species of knowledge , we infer , not that there is no more room for improvement , but that in every science which de ...
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... side is the bigot who pleads the wisdom of our ancestors as a reason for not doing what they , in our place , would be the first to do , who opposes the Reform Bill because Lord Somers did not see the necessity of parliamentary reform ...
... side is the bigot who pleads the wisdom of our ancestors as a reason for not doing what they , in our place , would be the first to do , who opposes the Reform Bill because Lord Somers did not see the necessity of parliamentary reform ...
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