The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 - English literature |
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... reason he be thought a master of words , that army , which was thus : -The Romans , when their generals did speak to their army , did use the word " Milites , " but when the magistrates spake to the people , they did use the word ...
... reason he be thought a master of words , that army , which was thus : -The Romans , when their generals did speak to their army , did use the word " Milites , " but when the magistrates spake to the people , they did use the word ...
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... reason why few persons are agreeable in conversation is because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying , and seldom listens but when he desires to speak . Rochefoucauld , says Segrais , was the most ...
... reason why few persons are agreeable in conversation is because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying , and seldom listens but when he desires to speak . Rochefoucauld , says Segrais , was the most ...
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... reason and the flow of soul . One wit of the Dean's acquaintance was never easy unless he was allowed to dictate and preside ; and it will usually be found that the jester requires an audience that he takes the initiative , and commands ...
... reason and the flow of soul . One wit of the Dean's acquaintance was never easy unless he was allowed to dictate and preside ; and it will usually be found that the jester requires an audience that he takes the initiative , and commands ...
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... reason ? But if any unprejudiced person doubts the real talent required for doing what Boswell did , let him make the expe- riment by attempting to describe some- body's conversation himself . Let him not It may be added to the merits ...
... reason ? But if any unprejudiced person doubts the real talent required for doing what Boswell did , let him make the expe- riment by attempting to describe some- body's conversation himself . Let him not It may be added to the merits ...
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Treatment . By Mary Carpenter . Lon- reason to acknowledge the truth of the don . 1853 . poet's caution , that 3. Mettray : a Lecture read before the Leeds Philosophical and Literary So- ciety . By Robert Hall , M.A. , Recorder of ...
Treatment . By Mary Carpenter . Lon- reason to acknowledge the truth of the don . 1853 . poet's caution , that 3. Mettray : a Lecture read before the Leeds Philosophical and Literary So- ciety . By Robert Hall , M.A. , Recorder of ...
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