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Macaulay allowed the Edinburgh Reviewer an extrava- gance of invective which he denied to the historian of the Revolution of 1688 ; but even in his ' History ' he remains the partisan . In politics he was a typical Whig .
Macaulay allowed the Edinburgh Reviewer an extrava- gance of invective which he denied to the historian of the Revolution of 1688 ; but even in his ' History ' he remains the partisan . In politics he was a typical Whig .
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tractors , their rusty remains sometimes covered with a stack cloth , sometimes lying open to the sun and rain . For lack of a little first aid or surgery slight mishaps had proved fatal ; they had died where they fell .
tractors , their rusty remains sometimes covered with a stack cloth , sometimes lying open to the sun and rain . For lack of a little first aid or surgery slight mishaps had proved fatal ; they had died where they fell .
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And it remains clear that the only unity of history is its unity as a story ; culminating in the ever - dramatic moment of the present . ' Round the story , as flesh and blood round the bone , ' writes Professor Trevelyan in Clio ...
And it remains clear that the only unity of history is its unity as a story ; culminating in the ever - dramatic moment of the present . ' Round the story , as flesh and blood round the bone , ' writes Professor Trevelyan in Clio ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 266 |
| 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, 1936 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 14 Sep 2021 |
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