Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes1-2D. Appleton and Company, 1896 |
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... Clarendon , and that of Hume . The former is not only ably written and full of valuable in- formation , but has also an air of dignity and sincerity which makes even the prejudices and errors with which it abounds respectable . Hame ...
... Clarendon , and that of Hume . The former is not only ably written and full of valuable in- formation , but has also an air of dignity and sincerity which makes even the prejudices and errors with which it abounds respectable . Hame ...
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... Clarendon . For himself , he demanded indeed the first place in the commonwealth ; but with powers scarcely so great as those of a Dutch stadtholder , or an American president . He gave the parliament a voice in the appointment of ...
... Clarendon . For himself , he demanded indeed the first place in the commonwealth ; but with powers scarcely so great as those of a Dutch stadtholder , or an American president . He gave the parliament a voice in the appointment of ...
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... Clarendon , but of Herodotus and Tacitus ; and the classical histories may almost be called romances founded in fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its princi- pal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which ...
... Clarendon , but of Herodotus and Tacitus ; and the classical histories may almost be called romances founded in fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its princi- pal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which ...
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... Clarendon , and the account of the civil wars in the abridgment of Goldsmith , vanishes , when com- pared with the immense mass of facts respecting which both are equally silent . No picture , then , and no history , can present us with ...
... Clarendon , and the account of the civil wars in the abridgment of Goldsmith , vanishes , when com- pared with the immense mass of facts respecting which both are equally silent . No picture , then , and no history , can present us with ...
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... Clarendon , instead of filling hundreds of folio pages with copies of state - papers , in which the same assertions and contradictions are repeated , till the reader is overpowered with weariness , had condescended to be the Boswell of ...
... Clarendon , instead of filling hundreds of folio pages with copies of state - papers , in which the same assertions and contradictions are repeated , till the reader is overpowered with weariness , had condescended to be the Boswell of ...
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