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Page 107
As the author himself writes , ' we should study him in his strength and in his
weakness : the tenacity of purpose and the disabling pessimism ; the fine sweep
of a military mind and the political ineptitude ; the glorious legend and the
enfeebled ...
As the author himself writes , ' we should study him in his strength and in his
weakness : the tenacity of purpose and the disabling pessimism ; the fine sweep
of a military mind and the political ineptitude ; the glorious legend and the
enfeebled ...
Page 109
Needless to say , Lord Russell writes with skill but at times with a lamentable lack
of tolerance of other people's feelings and opinions , and it is regrettable that he
uses the all - too - easy means of quoting texts from the Bible divorced from their
...
Needless to say , Lord Russell writes with skill but at times with a lamentable lack
of tolerance of other people's feelings and opinions , and it is regrettable that he
uses the all - too - easy means of quoting texts from the Bible divorced from their
...
Page 112
There is a good biographical introduction by Mr Auden ; but readers would be
more grateful to him if he had done more editing in the way of explaining the
background of the letters and essays , showing why Sydney Smith came to write
them .
There is a good biographical introduction by Mr Auden ; but readers would be
more grateful to him if he had done more editing in the way of explaining the
background of the letters and essays , showing why Sydney Smith came to write
them .
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Contents
Imperialism and Colonialism | 1 |
Is Philosophy Obsolete? | 12 |
What we owe Lord Halifax | 22 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review |
| Editors | William 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 |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1958 |
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