The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 - Periodicals |
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... passed , which would impose on him pen- alties something like , or even more severe than those now en- forced on Paul and Strahan . In the end , however , Mr. Gibbon escaped with a parliamentary conversation upon his affairs . His ...
... passed , which would impose on him pen- alties something like , or even more severe than those now en- forced on Paul and Strahan . In the end , however , Mr. Gibbon escaped with a parliamentary conversation upon his affairs . His ...
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... passing shadows . There is the stupid reader , who prefers dull books - is generally to be known by his disregard of small books and En- glish books , and likes masses in modern Latin , Grævius de tor- pore mirabili ; Horrificus de ...
... passing shadows . There is the stupid reader , who prefers dull books - is generally to be known by his disregard of small books and En- glish books , and likes masses in modern Latin , Grævius de tor- pore mirabili ; Horrificus de ...
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... . Scarcely any fact deeply affecting European civilisation is wholly passed over , and the great majority are elaborately recounted . Laws , dynasties , churches , barbarians , appear and disappear . Edward Gibbon . 27.
... . Scarcely any fact deeply affecting European civilisation is wholly passed over , and the great majority are elaborately recounted . Laws , dynasties , churches , barbarians , appear and disappear . Edward Gibbon . 27.
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... good conduct , and to leave heaven and hell to the ranters . Nor can we wonder that such should have been the notions of country parsons , when , even by those who passed for the supreme arbiters of orthodoxy and Edward Gibbon . 35.
... good conduct , and to leave heaven and hell to the ranters . Nor can we wonder that such should have been the notions of country parsons , when , even by those who passed for the supreme arbiters of orthodoxy and Edward Gibbon . 35.
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Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot. those who passed for the supreme arbiters of orthodoxy and taste , the vapid rhetoric of Blair was thought the highest stand- ard of Christian exhortation . " It is among the excuses for Gib- bon that ...
Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot. those who passed for the supreme arbiters of orthodoxy and taste , the vapid rhetoric of Blair was thought the highest stand- ard of Christian exhortation . " It is among the excuses for Gib- bon that ...
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