The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 - Periodicals |
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Page 13
... especially if written in another age , wearing an obsolete look , speaking a language which scarcely seems that of this world . There is an unconscious reasoning : " The world has had this book before it so long , and has with- stood it ...
... especially if written in another age , wearing an obsolete look , speaking a language which scarcely seems that of this world . There is an unconscious reasoning : " The world has had this book before it so long , and has with- stood it ...
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... Especially after the little affair of Mademoiselle Curchod , and the " very sensible view he took in that instance of the matrimonial relation , " there can be but little question that Gibbon was justly regarded as a most safe young man ...
... Especially after the little affair of Mademoiselle Curchod , and the " very sensible view he took in that instance of the matrimonial relation , " there can be but little question that Gibbon was justly regarded as a most safe young man ...
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... especially the many various inflexions of the verbs . In order to acquire that dry but necessary branch of knowledge , I pro- pose bestowing some time every morning on the perusal of the Greek Grammar of Port Royal , as one of the best ...
... especially the many various inflexions of the verbs . In order to acquire that dry but necessary branch of knowledge , I pro- pose bestowing some time every morning on the perusal of the Greek Grammar of Port Royal , as one of the best ...
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... especially to those only slightly ac- quainted with foreign countries at all , that they might be in part successful . Political eminence had given their language a diplomatic supremacy . There was no German literature at all ; Italy ...
... especially to those only slightly ac- quainted with foreign countries at all , that they might be in part successful . Political eminence had given their language a diplomatic supremacy . There was no German literature at all ; Italy ...
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... especially a large history . Long before you get to the pen , there is an immensity of pure business ; heaps of ma- terial are strewn every where ; but they lie in disorder , unread , uncatalogued , unknown . It seems a dreary waste of ...
... especially a large history . Long before you get to the pen , there is an immensity of pure business ; heaps of ma- terial are strewn every where ; but they lie in disorder , unread , uncatalogued , unknown . It seems a dreary waste of ...
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