The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 |
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... fact . He could not fore- see that it would ever be argued that the sage was justly executed by the populace as a bore ! If , then , we set down the Memorabilia ' as the earliest and most important book of Table - Talk extant , we shall ...
... fact . He could not fore- see that it would ever be argued that the sage was justly executed by the populace as a bore ! If , then , we set down the Memorabilia ' as the earliest and most important book of Table - Talk extant , we shall ...
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... fact , as the monarch of letters , just as the ancients spoke of the Persian king - as The King . He had a combination of two kinds of pride , either of which is enough for a poor mortal . He was proud , because he thought himself the ...
... fact , as the monarch of letters , just as the ancients spoke of the Persian king - as The King . He had a combination of two kinds of pride , either of which is enough for a poor mortal . He was proud , because he thought himself the ...
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... fact which he of course dwelt on when the dira podagra chained him to his garden - chair . and the strangeness is all the more pro- | bon , which the reader need not believe . minent from the alphabetical arrangement . Turn over C , and ...
... fact which he of course dwelt on when the dira podagra chained him to his garden - chair . and the strangeness is all the more pro- | bon , which the reader need not believe . minent from the alphabetical arrangement . Turn over C , and ...
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... fact , a very large proportion of actors likewise . If we take the conversational men of letters , we shall find that they were either men fit for action , but kept out of it by accident , like Dr. Johnson ; or at once , men of letters ...
... fact , a very large proportion of actors likewise . If we take the conversational men of letters , we shall find that they were either men fit for action , but kept out of it by accident , like Dr. Johnson ; or at once , men of letters ...
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... fact ; but there is none so striking and so lively as that which is given in a letter of Walter Scott : - " " on the A grand - aunt of my own , Mrs. Keith of Ravelstone , lived with unabated vigour of intel- In the same letter in which ...
... fact ; but there is none so striking and so lively as that which is given in a letter of Walter Scott : - " " on the A grand - aunt of my own , Mrs. Keith of Ravelstone , lived with unabated vigour of intel- In the same letter in which ...
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