Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلدات 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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الصفحة xiii
... strong for him to resist ; and before he entered on the practice of his profession , he had , by one article in a review , passed at a bound to a conspicuous place among the writers of the time . It might have been expected , from his ...
... strong for him to resist ; and before he entered on the practice of his profession , he had , by one article in a review , passed at a bound to a conspicuous place among the writers of the time . It might have been expected , from his ...
الصفحة xiv
... strong and striking thoughts to rescue its brilliancy from the charge of superficiality . If the splendor of its rhetoric seemed consciously designed for display , this defect applies in great measure to Macaulay's rhetoric in general ...
... strong and striking thoughts to rescue its brilliancy from the charge of superficiality . If the splendor of its rhetoric seemed consciously designed for display , this defect applies in great measure to Macaulay's rhetoric in general ...
الصفحة xxiii
... strong in the feeling that he had excited their hatred by acts which his conscience prompted and his reason approved . He would not re- cant a single expression , much less a single opinion . 199 99 " The bray of Exeter Hall ...
... strong in the feeling that he had excited their hatred by acts which his conscience prompted and his reason approved . He would not re- cant a single expression , much less a single opinion . 199 99 " The bray of Exeter Hall ...
الصفحة xxx
... strong , and tough polemic , who is thoroughly well furnished for combat , and who neither gives nor expects quarter . No tenderness to frailty interferes with the merciless severity of his judgments . His own political and personal ...
... strong , and tough polemic , who is thoroughly well furnished for combat , and who neither gives nor expects quarter . No tenderness to frailty interferes with the merciless severity of his judgments . His own political and personal ...
الصفحة 7
... strong suspicions . " 66 Cæsar drew up his figure from its ordinary state of graceful relaxation into an attitude of commanding dignity , and replied in a voice of which the deep and impassioned melody formed a strange contrast to the ...
... strong suspicions . " 66 Cæsar drew up his figure from its ordinary state of graceful relaxation into an attitude of commanding dignity , and replied in a voice of which the deep and impassioned melody formed a strange contrast to the ...
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