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Hume's general information , his apparent mild- ness and good temper , his gentlemanlike flow of language when he was not provoked , his conversational powers , and the general tendency of his moral and philosophical essays , gained him ...
Hume's general information , his apparent mild- ness and good temper , his gentlemanlike flow of language when he was not provoked , his conversational powers , and the general tendency of his moral and philosophical essays , gained him ...
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15 ) , that , from Carte , Hume borrowed not only the arrangement of events but the structure of his expressions , giving , however , the colour of his own thought and style to the narration , and occasionally verifying Carte's ...
15 ) , that , from Carte , Hume borrowed not only the arrangement of events but the structure of his expressions , giving , however , the colour of his own thought and style to the narration , and occasionally verifying Carte's ...
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Hume , compiling chiefly from dull and vapid translations and compilations , and quite unable to catch a distinct perception of the originals , never approaches to the truth of historical diction , though he fully attains its rhetorical ...
Hume , compiling chiefly from dull and vapid translations and compilations , and quite unable to catch a distinct perception of the originals , never approaches to the truth of historical diction , though he fully attains its rhetorical ...
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IntimeMouvement LittérairePortraits 17891836 | 375 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 73 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1843 |
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