The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 - Periodicals |
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Page 13
... speaking a language which scarcely seems that of this world . There is an unconscious reasoning : " The world has had this book before it so long , and has with- stood it . There must be something wrong ; it seems all right on the ...
... speaking a language which scarcely seems that of this world . There is an unconscious reasoning : " The world has had this book before it so long , and has with- stood it . There must be something wrong ; it seems all right on the ...
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... speaking only French was then regarded as a most unnatural event ; forbidden , not indeed by the literal law of the church , but by those higher instinctive principles of our nature , to which the bluntest own obedience . No father ...
... speaking only French was then regarded as a most unnatural event ; forbidden , not indeed by the literal law of the church , but by those higher instinctive principles of our nature , to which the bluntest own obedience . No father ...
Page 23
... speak any other lan- guage , and the notion of writing any other seemed quite a bêtise . By a miserable misfortune you might not know French , but at least you could conceal it assiduously ; white paper any how might go unsoiled ...
... speak any other lan- guage , and the notion of writing any other seemed quite a bêtise . By a miserable misfortune you might not know French , but at least you could conceal it assiduously ; white paper any how might go unsoiled ...
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... speak , as well as a few of the worst , who always would , -Gibbon's history made much progress . The first volume , a quarto , one - sixth of the whole , was published in the spring of 1776 , and at once raised his fame to a high point ...
... speak , as well as a few of the worst , who always would , -Gibbon's history made much progress . The first volume , a quarto , one - sixth of the whole , was published in the spring of 1776 , and at once raised his fame to a high point ...
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... speak of , involved it may be in the events they speak of , and therefore describing them with the partiality and narrowness of an eager actor ; or even worse , by men far apart from them in a monkish solitude , familiar with the ...
... speak of , involved it may be in the events they speak of , and therefore describing them with the partiality and narrowness of an eager actor ; or even worse , by men far apart from them in a monkish solitude , familiar with the ...
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