Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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... talents and of his insinuating address , to procure clients . He rose very rapidly into business , and soon entertained hopes of being called within the bar . He applied to Lord Burleigh for that purpose , but received a testy refusal ...
... talents and of his insinuating address , to procure clients . He rose very rapidly into business , and soon entertained hopes of being called within the bar . He applied to Lord Burleigh for that purpose , but received a testy refusal ...
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... talents so rare , of judgment so prematurely ripe , of temper so calm , and of manners so plausible , might have been expected to succeed . Nor indeed did he wholly fail . Once , however , he indulged in a burst of patriotism which cost ...
... talents so rare , of judgment so prematurely ripe , of temper so calm , and of manners so plausible , might have been expected to succeed . Nor indeed did he wholly fail . Once , however , he indulged in a burst of patriotism which cost ...
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... talents , his humane and generous disposition , had made him the idol of his countrymen and had extorted praise from the enemies whom he had conquered . * He had always been proud and headstrong ; and his splendid success seems to have ...
... talents , his humane and generous disposition , had made him the idol of his countrymen and had extorted praise from the enemies whom he had conquered . * He had always been proud and headstrong ; and his splendid success seems to have ...
Pagina 43
... talents to shed the Earl's blood , and his literary talents to blacken the Earl's memory . It is certain that his conduct excited at the time great and general disapprobation . While Elizabeth lived , indeed , this disapprobation ...
... talents to shed the Earl's blood , and his literary talents to blacken the Earl's memory . It is certain that his conduct excited at the time great and general disapprobation . While Elizabeth lived , indeed , this disapprobation ...
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... talents could do so little . It is not probable that Bacon's Defence had much effect on his contemporaries . But the unfavourable impression which his conduct had made appears to have been gradually effaced . Indeed it must be some very ...
... talents could do so little . It is not probable that Bacon's Defence had much effect on his contemporaries . But the unfavourable impression which his conduct had made appears to have been gradually effaced . Indeed it must be some very ...
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