Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections. 1st [-3rd] SerLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1874 - 411 من الصفحات |
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... character , as an instrument of freedom and civilisation , sadly compromised by faction or cor- ruption from within . 6 When Madame de Stäel was expatiating to the Emperor Alexander on the good fortune of Russia in possessing such a ...
... character , as an instrument of freedom and civilisation , sadly compromised by faction or cor- ruption from within . 6 When Madame de Stäel was expatiating to the Emperor Alexander on the good fortune of Russia in possessing such a ...
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... character of the House than the immeasurably enhanced importance of the leadership . The conversation at The Grove ' ( Lord Clarendon's ) happening to turn on a probable change of Ministry , Don't trouble yourself about the Prime ...
... character of the House than the immeasurably enhanced importance of the leadership . The conversation at The Grove ' ( Lord Clarendon's ) happening to turn on a probable change of Ministry , Don't trouble yourself about the Prime ...
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... characters of antiquity - with Cato , Brutus , Cassius - the historian exclaims : Compare only one circumstance and con- sider its consequences . The leizure of those noble antients were ( sic ) totally employed in the study of Grecian ...
... characters of antiquity - with Cato , Brutus , Cassius - the historian exclaims : Compare only one circumstance and con- sider its consequences . The leizure of those noble antients were ( sic ) totally employed in the study of Grecian ...
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... character , moral and intellectual , for the part of a demagogue . It was in small circles , and , above all , in the House of Lords , that his ascen- Dryden paints Halifax- dency was felt . ' " Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ...
... character , moral and intellectual , for the part of a demagogue . It was in small circles , and , above all , in the House of Lords , that his ascen- Dryden paints Halifax- dency was felt . ' " Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ...
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... night and has left me 700l . a year . ' Pitt's character was admirably drawn by Grattan , who says of his eloquence that it was an era in the senate : that it resembled sometimes the thunder , and 46 THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT :
... night and has left me 700l . a year . ' Pitt's character was admirably drawn by Grattan , who says of his eloquence that it was an era in the senate : that it resembled sometimes the thunder , and 46 THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT :
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