Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... facts , dates , and quotations ; and of sending manuscripts to the post without reading them over . What he has composed thus rapidly has often been as rapidly printed . His object has been that every Essay should now appear as it ...
... facts , dates , and quotations ; and of sending manuscripts to the post without reading them over . What he has composed thus rapidly has often been as rapidly printed . His object has been that every Essay should now appear as it ...
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... fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the expe- rimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating ...
... fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the expe- rimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating ...
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... facts , and content themselves with calling testimony to character . He had so many private virtues ! And had James the Second no private virtues ? Was Oliver Crom- well , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of ...
... facts , and content themselves with calling testimony to character . He had so many private virtues ! And had James the Second no private virtues ? Was Oliver Crom- well , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of ...
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... fact the necessary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other . One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred , ambition and fear . Death had lost its terrors ...
... fact the necessary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other . One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred , ambition and fear . Death had lost its terrors ...
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... fact however seems to have been that Machiavelli , despairing of the liberty of Florence , was inclined to support any govern- ment which might preserve her inde- pendence . The interval which sepa- and the shield . The victories of Fla ...
... fact however seems to have been that Machiavelli , despairing of the liberty of Florence , was inclined to support any govern- ment which might preserve her inde- pendence . The interval which sepa- and the shield . The victories of Fla ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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