The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 - Periodicals |
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... given to loose and unplanned reading , we are not saying that it is the sole ingredient of a good education . Besides this sort of education , which some boys will voluntarily and naturally give themselves , there needs , of course ...
... given to loose and unplanned reading , we are not saying that it is the sole ingredient of a good education . Besides this sort of education , which some boys will voluntarily and naturally give themselves , there needs , of course ...
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... given up almost the pretence of lecturing . ” " The examination , " said a great judge some years later , " was a farce in my time . I was asked who founded University Col- lege ; and I said , though the fact is now doubted , that King ...
... given up almost the pretence of lecturing . ” " The examination , " said a great judge some years later , " was a farce in my time . I was asked who founded University Col- lege ; and I said , though the fact is now doubted , that King ...
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... given their language a diplomatic supremacy . There was no German literature at all ; Italy had ceased to produce important books . There was only England left to dispute the literary despotism ; and such an at- tempt as Gibbon's was a ...
... given their language a diplomatic supremacy . There was no German literature at all ; Italy had ceased to produce important books . There was only England left to dispute the literary despotism ; and such an at- tempt as Gibbon's was a ...
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... given him a posthumous eminence ; but in his own time he was doubt- less thought a sensible safe man , of ordinary thoughts and intel- ligible actions . To do him justice , he did not pretend to be a hero . " You know , " he wrote to ...
... given him a posthumous eminence ; but in his own time he was doubt- less thought a sensible safe man , of ordinary thoughts and intel- ligible actions . To do him justice , he did not pretend to be a hero . " You know , " he wrote to ...
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... given offence he could hardly make out . It actually seems that he hardly thought that other people believed more than he did . We may be well assured , " says he , of a sceptic of antiquity , " that a writer conversant with the world ...
... given offence he could hardly make out . It actually seems that he hardly thought that other people believed more than he did . We may be well assured , " says he , of a sceptic of antiquity , " that a writer conversant with the world ...
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