The Quarterly Review, Volume 159William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1885 |
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... words from Carlyle's mouth not in praise , let us take one more which all can agree in praising . We will take it from his address to the Edinburgh students ; and there is surely something touching in the thought of the old man in the ...
... words from Carlyle's mouth not in praise , let us take one more which all can agree in praising . We will take it from his address to the Edinburgh students ; and there is surely something touching in the thought of the old man in the ...
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... words are often sesquipedalian ; that he inverts the order of words usual in English , and substitutes for it an order which is more commonly identified with Latin ; that , indeed , to use Goldsmith's words , he makes his little fishes ...
... words are often sesquipedalian ; that he inverts the order of words usual in English , and substitutes for it an order which is more commonly identified with Latin ; that , indeed , to use Goldsmith's words , he makes his little fishes ...
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... words , phrases , maxims , and general propositions , which have their root in political theories , not indeed far removed from us by distance of time , but as much forgotten by the mass of mankind as if they had belonged to the ...
... words , phrases , maxims , and general propositions , which have their root in political theories , not indeed far removed from us by distance of time , but as much forgotten by the mass of mankind as if they had belonged to the ...
Contents
London 1884 | 450 |
Hansards Parliamentary Debates 18821884 | 480 |
And other Works | 499 |
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