The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary PortraitsOxford University Press, 1960 - 302 стор. |
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... never abrupt , never meagre , never dry , copious without confusion , dignified without stiffness , perspicuous yet remote from common life , that must excite surprise in an extempore speaker . Mr. Canning , we apprehend , is not an ...
... never abrupt , never meagre , never dry , copious without confusion , dignified without stiffness , perspicuous yet remote from common life , that must excite surprise in an extempore speaker . Mr. Canning , we apprehend , is not an ...
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... never flinched , never gone back , never missed his way ; he is an out - and - outer in this respect . His allegiance has been without flaw , like ' one entire and perfect chrysolite , ' his implicit understanding is a kind of taffeta ...
... never flinched , never gone back , never missed his way ; he is an out - and - outer in this respect . His allegiance has been without flaw , like ' one entire and perfect chrysolite , ' his implicit understanding is a kind of taffeta ...
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... never come to a stop ; they have all the force of novelty with all the familiarity of old acquaintance . His knowledge grows out of the subject ; and his style is that of a man who has an absolute intuition of what he is talking about ...
... never come to a stop ; they have all the force of novelty with all the familiarity of old acquaintance . His knowledge grows out of the subject ; and his style is that of a man who has an absolute intuition of what he is talking about ...
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