The North American Review, Band 64Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1847 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... language , who can resist the temptation to flourish it in the eyes and ears of men . The natural bent of Gibbon's mind inclined him strongly to historical investigations , and while engaged in the bloodless campaigns of the militia ...
... language , who can resist the temptation to flourish it in the eyes and ears of men . The natural bent of Gibbon's mind inclined him strongly to historical investigations , and while engaged in the bloodless campaigns of the militia ...
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... language sharp and sneering , what he dared not openly advance ; that he made his history a means of gratifying a spiteful and resentful feeling , which he seemed to want courage to avow ; and that , under some strange perversion of ...
... language sharp and sneering , what he dared not openly advance ; that he made his history a means of gratifying a spiteful and resentful feeling , which he seemed to want courage to avow ; and that , under some strange perversion of ...
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... language made him generally welcome . Hume , who was a favorite there , was laughed at for his ignorance of French and his awkward simplicity of manners . Gibbon ap- pears to have been more respected than beloved . In parlia- ment , he ...
... language made him generally welcome . Hume , who was a favorite there , was laughed at for his ignorance of French and his awkward simplicity of manners . Gibbon ap- pears to have been more respected than beloved . In parlia- ment , he ...
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... language , only serve to excite at- tention which the reader without them never would have thought of giving . It implies an enlightened knowledge of human nature , like that of one who should inclose what he wished to conceal in a thin ...
... language , only serve to excite at- tention which the reader without them never would have thought of giving . It implies an enlightened knowledge of human nature , like that of one who should inclose what he wished to conceal in a thin ...
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... languages which his soul abhorred , while the book of nature with its expressive language and beautiful illustrations lay unread , beneath his feet . At least , such was the sub- stance of his meditations ; for we would not give the ...
... languages which his soul abhorred , while the book of nature with its expressive language and beautiful illustrations lay unread , beneath his feet . At least , such was the sub- stance of his meditations ; for we would not give the ...
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