The National Review, Volume 10Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1860 |
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... thing they disapprove , and on every one who ventures to differ from them or to argue with them . Since the days of Dean Swift and Johnson there have been no such offenders among the literary men of England . Still , even here there is ...
... thing they disapprove , and on every one who ventures to differ from them or to argue with them . Since the days of Dean Swift and Johnson there have been no such offenders among the literary men of England . Still , even here there is ...
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... things with social health , and the effect they have in clearing away the secret morbidness of ex- clusive temperaments ... thing like inductive reasoning , unable to take cognisance of any facts but those which please his taste , or to ...
... things with social health , and the effect they have in clearing away the secret morbidness of ex- clusive temperaments ... thing like inductive reasoning , unable to take cognisance of any facts but those which please his taste , or to ...
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... thing unreal and deceptive he has a keen eye and a withering denunciation . He has broken in pieces many hollow ... things , and to abandon what has clearly been found wanting . If he has built up little , he has destroyed much ; he has ...
... thing unreal and deceptive he has a keen eye and a withering denunciation . He has broken in pieces many hollow ... things , and to abandon what has clearly been found wanting . If he has built up little , he has destroyed much ; he has ...
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... thing but shame ! To have fancied all my life - vain fool that I was ! -that every one loved and admired me ; and to find that they were despising me , hating me , all along !. And yet women as bad as I have been honoured - when they ...
... thing but shame ! To have fancied all my life - vain fool that I was ! -that every one loved and admired me ; and to find that they were despising me , hating me , all along !. And yet women as bad as I have been honoured - when they ...
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... do not see how a pointed arch can be more Popish than a round one , or a round arch more Protestant than a pointed one . Still , if there is such a thing in the world as a Popish style The Foreign Office : Classic or Gothic . 29.
... do not see how a pointed arch can be more Popish than a round one , or a round arch more Protestant than a pointed one . Still , if there is such a thing in the world as a Popish style The Foreign Office : Classic or Gothic . 29.
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Page 395 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Page 395 - And fear came upon every soul : and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
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