WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a composition, it deserves to be classed among the best specimens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three which we... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 320por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1876 - 726 páginas
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| Laman Blanchard - 1876 - 440 páginas
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| Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 304 páginas
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| Frederick William Fairholt - 1876 - 392 páginas
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| Bridget Kavanagh - 1876 - 320 páginas
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| Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 362 páginas
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| William Godwin - 1876 - 344 páginas
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| Laman Blanchard - 1876 - 420 páginas
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| David Brewster - 1876 - 354 páginas
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| Charles Jeremiah Wells - 1876 - 336 páginas
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