Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... kind of light at the Revolution was , as we have said , still more complete than that which followed upon the setting up of the Commonwealth , the difference seems to have been mainly owing to there having been less of it to extinguish ...
... kind of light at the Revolution was , as we have said , still more complete than that which followed upon the setting up of the Commonwealth , the difference seems to have been mainly owing to there having been less of it to extinguish ...
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... kind than any that was to be got out of the thirty years , or thereby , of laxity , frivolity , denationalization , and insincerity of all sorts , down the comparatively smooth stream of which men slid , without effort and without ...
... kind than any that was to be got out of the thirty years , or thereby , of laxity , frivolity , denationalization , and insincerity of all sorts , down the comparatively smooth stream of which men slid , without effort and without ...
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... kind , to redeem its rudeness , is the most slovenly undress in which a writer ever wrapt up what he had to communicate to the public . Its only merit , as we have observed , is that it is without any air of preten- sion , and that it ...
... kind , to redeem its rudeness , is the most slovenly undress in which a writer ever wrapt up what he had to communicate to the public . Its only merit , as we have observed , is that it is without any air of preten- sion , and that it ...
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... kind upon that occasion , it would seem to most men a romantic scene . Yet we are sure there must be such a scene . The heavens will pass away with a noise , and the elements will melt with fervent heat , and all the works of the earth ...
... kind upon that occasion , it would seem to most men a romantic scene . Yet we are sure there must be such a scene . The heavens will pass away with a noise , and the elements will melt with fervent heat , and all the works of the earth ...
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... kind of second chaos , and leave a capacity for another world to rise from it . But that is not our present business . Let us only , if you please , to take leave of this subject , reflect , upon this occasion , on the vanity and ...
... kind of second chaos , and leave a capacity for another world to rise from it . But that is not our present business . Let us only , if you please , to take leave of this subject , reflect , upon this occasion , on the vanity and ...
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