Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1853 - 744 páginas |
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... talents had merged in another so completely , that it could not be severed ; because , having iong been habituated to invent and narrate at the same time , they found it impossible to narrate without inventing . Some capricious and ...
... talents had merged in another so completely , that it could not be severed ; because , having iong been habituated to invent and narrate at the same time , they found it impossible to narrate without inventing . Some capricious and ...
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... talents . But his style is not very pleasant ; and his most powerful work , the ac- count of the Conspiracy of Catiline , has ra- ther the air of a clever party pamphlet than that of a history . It abounds with strange in - tration ...
... talents . But his style is not very pleasant ; and his most powerful work , the ac- count of the Conspiracy of Catiline , has ra- ther the air of a clever party pamphlet than that of a history . It abounds with strange in - tration ...
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... talents , and of great virtues ; but , we apprehend , infinitely too fas- tidious for public life . He did not perceive that in such times as those on which his lot had fallen , the duty of a statesman is to choose the better cause ...
... talents , and of great virtues ; but , we apprehend , infinitely too fas- tidious for public life . He did not perceive that in such times as those on which his lot had fallen , the duty of a statesman is to choose the better cause ...
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... talents of Bonaparte to those of Cromwell ; and he possessed also what neither Cromwell nor Bonaparte possessed , learning , taste , wit , eloquence , the sentiments and the manners of an accomplished gentleman . which rose on the ruins ...
... talents of Bonaparte to those of Cromwell ; and he possessed also what neither Cromwell nor Bonaparte possessed , learning , taste , wit , eloquence , the sentiments and the manners of an accomplished gentleman . which rose on the ruins ...
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... talents were displayed by any Englishman ; no extraordinary risks were run ; no sacrifices were made , except the sacrifice which Church- ill made of honour , and Anne of natural affec- tion . Never was there less of national feeling ...
... talents were displayed by any Englishman ; no extraordinary risks were run ; no sacrifices were made , except the sacrifice which Church- ill made of honour , and Anne of natural affec- tion . Never was there less of national feeling ...
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