The Quarterly Review, Volume 110John Murray, 1861 |
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... observation , as the exigencies of the case required . Arriving at home , he issued a bulletin of the engagement , which was read with much ceremony to the housekeeper . Sometimes this document announced a victory , and sometimes a ...
... observation , as the exigencies of the case required . Arriving at home , he issued a bulletin of the engagement , which was read with much ceremony to the housekeeper . Sometimes this document announced a victory , and sometimes a ...
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... observation that an intellect at once so powerful and so keen as his , and a boldness of inquiry which shrank from no length of investigation , should never have carried its possessor beyond the confines of revelation . con- In his ...
... observation that an intellect at once so powerful and so keen as his , and a boldness of inquiry which shrank from no length of investigation , should never have carried its possessor beyond the confines of revelation . con- In his ...
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... observations , which it has so long been the fashion to discredit . In Homer and the Homeridæ he gives us a most acute and convincing argument in favour of the unity of the Homeric poems . Of foreign literature De Quincey has written ...
... observations , which it has so long been the fashion to discredit . In Homer and the Homeridæ he gives us a most acute and convincing argument in favour of the unity of the Homeric poems . Of foreign literature De Quincey has written ...
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... observe in De Quincey's article on Lessing an allusion to Lord Shaftesbury's writings on Taste ; and upon turning to his Lordship's works , though not in the same treatise as that men- tioned by De Quincey , we find the revival of ...
... observe in De Quincey's article on Lessing an allusion to Lord Shaftesbury's writings on Taste ; and upon turning to his Lordship's works , though not in the same treatise as that men- tioned by De Quincey , we find the revival of ...
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... observe this peculiarity in his disposition to extol Julius Cæsar at the expense of Cicero . In De Quincey's views of English politics we observe the same want of practical sobriety . He goes much further , for instance , in his ...
... observe this peculiarity in his disposition to extol Julius Cæsar at the expense of Cicero . In De Quincey's views of English politics we observe the same want of practical sobriety . He goes much further , for instance , in his ...
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