The Quarterly Review, Volume 266William 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, 1936 |
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... politician ? Certain it is that he had very decided views on matters of moment in the State as well as in the Church , and no one who compares his account , say , of Simon de Montfort with those of Freeman and J. R. Green can doubt that ...
... politician ? Certain it is that he had very decided views on matters of moment in the State as well as in the Church , and no one who compares his account , say , of Simon de Montfort with those of Freeman and J. R. Green can doubt that ...
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... politician , was no orator in the oral sense . Macaulay was an orator both by voice and pen . Thanks to the incomparable brilliance of his oratory he lives , and will live , as an historian . Yet he was , perhaps , the most bitter ...
... politician , was no orator in the oral sense . Macaulay was an orator both by voice and pen . Thanks to the incomparable brilliance of his oratory he lives , and will live , as an historian . Yet he was , perhaps , the most bitter ...
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... politician . Not necessarily , of course , if the phrase be permitted , a ' practising politician . ' Mr George Trevelyan has never sat in Parliament , yet who that knows his admirable work can doubt that he is an ardent politician ...
... politician . Not necessarily , of course , if the phrase be permitted , a ' practising politician . ' Mr George Trevelyan has never sat in Parliament , yet who that knows his admirable work can doubt that he is an ardent politician ...
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