Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... wealth which had been accumulated during centuries of prosperity and repose was rapidly melting away . The intellectual superiority of the oppressed people only rendered them more keenly sensible of their political degradation ...
... wealth which had been accumulated during centuries of prosperity and repose was rapidly melting away . The intellectual superiority of the oppressed people only rendered them more keenly sensible of their political degradation ...
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... wealth an easy prey to every foreign plunderer . The secretary projected a scheme alike honourable to his heart and to his intellect , for abolishing the use of mercenary troops , and organizing a national militia . The exertions which ...
... wealth an easy prey to every foreign plunderer . The secretary projected a scheme alike honourable to his heart and to his intellect , for abolishing the use of mercenary troops , and organizing a national militia . The exertions which ...
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... wealth and its poverty , in its glory and its shame . In the age of Machiavelli , this was peculiarly the case . Public events had produced an immense sum of money to private citizens . The Northern invaders had brought want to their ...
... wealth and its poverty , in its glory and its shame . In the age of Machiavelli , this was peculiarly the case . Public events had produced an immense sum of money to private citizens . The Northern invaders had brought want to their ...
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... wealth , the wantonness of exuberant vigour . To us it seems to bear a nearer affinity to the tawdriness of poverty , or the spasms and convulsions of weakness . Dryden surely had not more imagination than Homer , Dante , or Milton ...
... wealth , the wantonness of exuberant vigour . To us it seems to bear a nearer affinity to the tawdriness of poverty , or the spasms and convulsions of weakness . Dryden surely had not more imagination than Homer , Dante , or Milton ...
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... wealth of language seems to be unlimited . Yet the carelessness with which he has constructed his plot , and the innumerable in- consistencies into which he is every moment falling , detract much from the pleasure which such varied ...
... wealth of language seems to be unlimited . Yet the carelessness with which he has constructed his plot , and the innumerable in- consistencies into which he is every moment falling , detract much from the pleasure which such varied ...
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