Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... favour by the American public . It has been his aim to pre- sent them in a form worthy of the high merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been exclusively occupied with the literary productions which have given him so brilliant ...
... favour by the American public . It has been his aim to pre- sent them in a form worthy of the high merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been exclusively occupied with the literary productions which have given him so brilliant ...
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... favour of the Revolution of 1688 , may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better ...
... favour of the Revolution of 1688 , may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better ...
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... favour ; and , confident of that favour , they despised all the accomplish- ments and all the dignities of the world . If they were un- acquainted with the works of philosophers and poets , they were deeply read in the oracles of God ...
... favour ; and , confident of that favour , they despised all the accomplish- ments and all the dignities of the world . If they were un- acquainted with the works of philosophers and poets , they were deeply read in the oracles of God ...
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... favour and on their great personal qualities . Such a work would exhibit to us the real nature of that species of sovereignty , so singular and so often misunderstood , which the Greeks denominated tyranny , and which modified in some ...
... favour and on their great personal qualities . Such a work would exhibit to us the real nature of that species of sovereignty , so singular and so often misunderstood , which the Greeks denominated tyranny , and which modified in some ...
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... favour to reform it . Of these , Dryden was the most eminent . Amidst the crowd of authors , who , during the earlier years of Charles the Second , courted notoriety by every species of absurdity and affectation , he speedily became ...
... favour to reform it . Of these , Dryden was the most eminent . Amidst the crowd of authors , who , during the earlier years of Charles the Second , courted notoriety by every species of absurdity and affectation , he speedily became ...
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