The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary PortraitsOxford University Press, 1960 - 302 стор. |
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... arguments , alliterations , quotations , jests , and squibs prepared ready to ex- plode and blow him up into the air in an instant . In this manner he contrives to slip into the debate and speak to the question , as if he had lately ...
... arguments , alliterations , quotations , jests , and squibs prepared ready to ex- plode and blow him up into the air in an instant . In this manner he contrives to slip into the debate and speak to the question , as if he had lately ...
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... argument with any proscribed writer of the opposite party . He does not refute , but denounces him . He makes no concessions to an adver- sary , lest they should in some way be turned against him . He only feels himself safe in the ...
... argument with any proscribed writer of the opposite party . He does not refute , but denounces him . He makes no concessions to an adver- sary , lest they should in some way be turned against him . He only feels himself safe in the ...
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... argument . ' He may be said to weave words into any shapes he pleases for use or ornament , as the glass - blower moulds the vitreous fluid with his breath ; and his sentences shine like glass from their polished smoothness , and are ...
... argument . ' He may be said to weave words into any shapes he pleases for use or ornament , as the glass - blower moulds the vitreous fluid with his breath ; and his sentences shine like glass from their polished smoothness , and are ...
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