Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volúmenes1-2Dana Estes & Company, 1860 |
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... malicious accuracy , the number of guineas which each word cost the British people . Between alarmists and wits the whole projec fell through . There was a general impression that the XX BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
... malicious accuracy , the number of guineas which each word cost the British people . Between alarmists and wits the whole projec fell through . There was a general impression that the XX BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
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... whole field . The power of the author to interest us is as evident in ais account of the Bank of England as in his account of the Massacre of Glencoe . We pass from one topic to another without any sense of the connection of topics ...
... whole field . The power of the author to interest us is as evident in ais account of the Bank of England as in his account of the Massacre of Glencoe . We pass from one topic to another without any sense of the connection of topics ...
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... whole . In Ma- caulay the narrative of particular facts and incidents is incomparably bright and stimulating , but the facts and incidents are not seen from a commanding point . In his essays , especially his biographical and his ...
... whole . In Ma- caulay the narrative of particular facts and incidents is incomparably bright and stimulating , but the facts and incidents are not seen from a commanding point . In his essays , especially his biographical and his ...
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... whole Odyssey of strange adventures . " " I believe so ; an Odyssey of which Pompey will be the Polyphemus , and Cicero the Siren . I would have the state imitate Ulysses : show no mercy to the former ; but contrive , if it can be done ...
... whole Odyssey of strange adventures . " " I believe so ; an Odyssey of which Pompey will be the Polyphemus , and Cicero the Siren . I would have the state imitate Ulysses : show no mercy to the former ; but contrive , if it can be done ...
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... commanding voice ; " You are making very ungentle ove , Clodius . " 1 Venus was the Roman term for the highest throw on the dice . The whole party started . them unperceived . Cæsar had FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE . 13.
... commanding voice ; " You are making very ungentle ove , Clodius . " 1 Venus was the Roman term for the highest throw on the dice . The whole party started . them unperceived . Cæsar had FRAGMENTS OF A ROMAN TALE . 13.
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