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Both his matter and his manner , setting aside his face and 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 published ,
and ...
Both his matter and his manner , setting aside his face and 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 published ,
and ...
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But a Court of Law was the place where Mr . Tooke made the best 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 himself , but to block
...
But a Court of Law was the place where Mr . Tooke made the best 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 himself , but to block
...
Сторінка 120
He no where makes so poor a 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 ...
He no where makes so poor a 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 ...
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... and his verses to her memory , found in his pocket after his death : in the same
volume of Old Mortality is that lone figure , like a figure in Scripture , of the woman
, sitting on the stone at the turning to the mountain , to warn Burley that there is ...
... and his verses to her memory , found in his pocket after his death : in the same
volume of Old Mortality is that lone figure , like a figure in Scripture , of the woman
, sitting on the stone at the turning to the mountain , to warn Burley that there is ...
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... and Rashleigh Osbaldistone , and Die Vernon , the best of secret - keepers ;
and in the Antiquary , the ingenious and abstruse Mr . Jonathan Oldbuck , and
the old beadsman Edie Ochiltree , and that preternatural figure of old Edith
Elspeith ...
... and Rashleigh Osbaldistone , and Die Vernon , the best of secret - keepers ;
and in the Antiquary , the ingenious and abstruse Mr . Jonathan Oldbuck , and
the old beadsman Edie Ochiltree , and that preternatural figure of old Edith
Elspeith ...
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