The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 - Periodicals |
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... affectionate eloquence -she really seems to have been of the greatest use to him in infancy . His health was very imperfect . We hear much of rheumatism , and lameness , and weakness ; and he was clearly in general unable to join in ...
... affectionate eloquence -she really seems to have been of the greatest use to him in infancy . His health was very imperfect . We hear much of rheumatism , and lameness , and weakness ; and he was clearly in general unable to join in ...
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... affection for a grave and lumbering banker- M. Necker , afterwards the slow premier in a quick revolution— the author of various financial treatises , French sums , and tedious theories , to which this Genevese beauty , however ...
... affection for a grave and lumbering banker- M. Necker , afterwards the slow premier in a quick revolution— the author of various financial treatises , French sums , and tedious theories , to which this Genevese beauty , however ...
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... affections on a sound and cold mind . " I sighed , " narrates the historian , " as a lover ; but I obeyed as a son . ' " I have seen , " says M. Suard , " the letter in which Gibbon communicated to Mademoiselle Curchod the opposition of ...
... affections on a sound and cold mind . " I sighed , " narrates the historian , " as a lover ; but I obeyed as a son . ' " I have seen , " says M. Suard , " the letter in which Gibbon communicated to Mademoiselle Curchod the opposition of ...
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... affection , and only voluntarily expended in the pur- chase and acquisition of serious volumes . He lived for many years , till his father's death and afterwards , an externally idle but really studious life , varied by tours in France ...
... affection , and only voluntarily expended in the pur- chase and acquisition of serious volumes . He lived for many years , till his father's death and afterwards , an externally idle but really studious life , varied by tours in France ...
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... affectionate solicitude of the elder relation , and the due sense of it entertained by the object of his care . During the two years from 1790 to 1792 ( when he finally quitted Youngsbury ) , the list of books read through is appalling ...
... affectionate solicitude of the elder relation , and the due sense of it entertained by the object of his care . During the two years from 1790 to 1792 ( when he finally quitted Youngsbury ) , the list of books read through is appalling ...
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