Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلدات 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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الصفحة viii
... " She refers to his loquacity , but that quality seems not , in her presence , to have been connected with dogmatism , for she calls him very docile . At that early age he appears to have viii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
... " She refers to his loquacity , but that quality seems not , in her presence , to have been connected with dogmatism , for she calls him very docile . At that early age he appears to have viii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
الصفحة ix
... seems also to have been as striking a trait of the boy's mind as volubility of utterance . One fault is mentioned , which was probably the result of his absorp- tion in study and composition . Incessantly occupied , mentally , he paid ...
... seems also to have been as striking a trait of the boy's mind as volubility of utterance . One fault is mentioned , which was probably the result of his absorp- tion in study and composition . Incessantly occupied , mentally , he paid ...
الصفحة xviii
... seems dif- ficult to conceive that a man of such intellectual hardi- hood as well as intellectual capacity , and who in conversation was one of the most fluent and well - in- formed of human beings , lacked the power of thinking on his ...
... seems dif- ficult to conceive that a man of such intellectual hardi- hood as well as intellectual capacity , and who in conversation was one of the most fluent and well - in- formed of human beings , lacked the power of thinking on his ...
الصفحة xxxiv
... seems as if we were reading the work of a poet who had turned annalist . By emphasizing everything , interest in particulars is obtained at the expense of general effect . It is only by turning to the table of contents that we are able ...
... seems as if we were reading the work of a poet who had turned annalist . By emphasizing everything , interest in particulars is obtained at the expense of general effect . It is only by turning to the table of contents that we are able ...
الصفحة 20
... seems , however , to belong indisputably to the Royal Society of Literature . At the first establishment of that ridicu- lous academy , every sensible man predicted that , in spite of regal patronage and episcopal management , it would ...
... seems , however , to belong indisputably to the Royal Society of Literature . At the first establishment of that ridicu- lous academy , every sensible man predicted that , in spite of regal patronage and episcopal management , it would ...
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