The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits, Том 2H. Colburn, 1825 - 408 стор. |
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... figure and dignified manner enable him to hazard sentiments or assertions that would be fatal to others . His controver- sial daring is backed by his bodily prowess ; and by bringing his intellectual pretensions boldly into a line with ...
... figure and dignified manner enable him to hazard sentiments or assertions that would be fatal to others . His controver- sial daring is backed by his bodily prowess ; and by bringing his intellectual pretensions boldly into a line with ...
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... figure , are more impressive . Take the volume of " Sermons on Astronomy , " by Dr. Chalmers , and the " Four Orations for the Oracles of God " which Mr. Irving lately pub- lished , and we apprehend there can be no comparison as to ...
... figure , are more impressive . Take the volume of " Sermons on Astronomy , " by Dr. Chalmers , and the " Four Orations for the Oracles of God " which Mr. Irving lately pub- lished , and we apprehend there can be no comparison as to ...
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... figure in public . He might assuredly be said to be " native and endued unto that element . " He had here to stand merely on the defensive - not to advance him- self , but to block up the way - not to impress others , but to be himself ...
... figure in public . He might assuredly be said to be " native and endued unto that element . " He had here to stand merely on the defensive - not to advance him- self , but to block up the way - not to impress others , but to be himself ...
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... figures that occupied the present time , and Mr. Tooke worked out the minute details and touched in the evanescent traits with the pencil of a master . His conversation resembled a political camera obscura - as quaint as it was magical ...
... figures that occupied the present time , and Mr. Tooke worked out the minute details and touched in the evanescent traits with the pencil of a master . His conversation resembled a political camera obscura - as quaint as it was magical ...
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... figure as in his controversy with Junius . He has evidently the best of the argument , yet he makes nothing out of it . He tells a long story about himself , without wit or point in it ; and whines and whimpers like a school - boy under ...
... figure as in his controversy with Junius . He has evidently the best of the argument , yet he makes nothing out of it . He tells a long story about himself , without wit or point in it ; and whines and whimpers like a school - boy under ...
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