Milton. Machiavelli. Hallam's Constitutional history. Southey's Colloquies on society. Mr. Robert Montgomery's poems. Southey's edition of The pilgrim's progress. Civil disabilities of the Jews. Moore's Life of Lord Byron. Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden. Burleigh and his times. War of the succession in Spain. Horace WalpoleMethuen, 1903 |
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... letters has been said once for all in the general Introduction . What the editor regards as the chief charac- teristics of each essay , its excellences and defects , have been suggested in the prefatory Note . Whilst endeavouring to ...
... letters has been said once for all in the general Introduction . What the editor regards as the chief charac- teristics of each essay , its excellences and defects , have been suggested in the prefatory Note . Whilst endeavouring to ...
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... letters be hereditary , it came to Macaulay rather from his mother than from his father . Mrs. Macaulay was the daughter of a Quaker bookseller in Bristol named Mills . She had been a favourite pupil and always remained the friend of ...
... letters be hereditary , it came to Macaulay rather from his mother than from his father . Mrs. Macaulay was the daughter of a Quaker bookseller in Bristol named Mills . She had been a favourite pupil and always remained the friend of ...
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... letters are not easily reconciled . Zachary must often have thought his son's pursuits frivolous , and sometimes tried to hinder his son's cleverness from breeding self - conceit . The boy , affectionate and loyal as he was , felt his ...
... letters are not easily reconciled . Zachary must often have thought his son's pursuits frivolous , and sometimes tried to hinder his son's cleverness from breeding self - conceit . The boy , affectionate and loyal as he was , felt his ...
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... letters were far more closely allied with politics than they are now , when political leaders still had pocket boroughs to bestow , and polished eloquence was still a valued accomplishment in public men , the young barrister was not ...
... letters were far more closely allied with politics than they are now , when political leaders still had pocket boroughs to bestow , and polished eloquence was still a valued accomplishment in public men , the young barrister was not ...
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... of a philosopher , he never became fortune's slave or set his heart on pleasures which at best are not unmingled and must always depend on other men's caprice . Essentially a man of letters , he never threw himself INTRODUCTION XV.
... of a philosopher , he never became fortune's slave or set his heart on pleasures which at best are not unmingled and must always depend on other men's caprice . Essentially a man of letters , he never threw himself INTRODUCTION XV.
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