The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 - Periodicals |
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... reason to believe that the second structure was not much inferior to the first . " But this only shows how far a family feeling may bias a sceptical judgment . The credit of a man in Mr. Gibbon's position could not be very lucrative ...
... reason to believe that the second structure was not much inferior to the first . " But this only shows how far a family feeling may bias a sceptical judgment . The credit of a man in Mr. Gibbon's position could not be very lucrative ...
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... reason , and a taste for books , which is still the pleasure and glory of my life ; and though she taught me neither language nor science , she was certainly the most useful preceptress I ever had . As I grew up , an intercourse of ...
... reason , and a taste for books , which is still the pleasure and glory of my life ; and though she taught me neither language nor science , she was certainly the most useful preceptress I ever had . As I grew up , an intercourse of ...
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... reason , in the original flow of fancy . What we learn afterwards are but the accurate littlenesses of the great topic , the dates and tedious facts . Those who begin late learn only these ; but the happy first feel the mystic ...
... reason , in the original flow of fancy . What we learn afterwards are but the accurate littlenesses of the great topic , the dates and tedious facts . Those who begin late learn only these ; but the happy first feel the mystic ...
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... century , or , with the generality of our writers , means also to include the fourth . But to whatever But to whatever age he may restrain it , the difficulty at last will be to assign a reason why 399385 Edward Gibbon . 13.
... century , or , with the generality of our writers , means also to include the fourth . But to whatever But to whatever age he may restrain it , the difficulty at last will be to assign a reason why 399385 Edward Gibbon . 13.
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... reason to believe that those powers were continued even to the latest ages as to any other , how early and primitive soever , after the days of the apostles . But the same writer gives us two reasons why he does not choose to say any ...
... reason to believe that those powers were continued even to the latest ages as to any other , how early and primitive soever , after the days of the apostles . But the same writer gives us two reasons why he does not choose to say any ...
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