The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 - Periodicals |
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... FRANCE Napoléon le Petit . Par Victor Hugo . London , 1852 . ART . VI . - PHOENICIA Phoenicia . By John Kenrick , M.A. London , B. Fellowes . 1855 . 1 42 69 97 123 156 • ART . VII.-W. M. THACKERAY , ARTIST AND MORALIST The 399385 THE ...
... FRANCE Napoléon le Petit . Par Victor Hugo . London , 1852 . ART . VI . - PHOENICIA Phoenicia . By John Kenrick , M.A. London , B. Fellowes . 1855 . 1 42 69 97 123 156 • ART . VII.-W. M. THACKERAY , ARTIST AND MORALIST The 399385 THE ...
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... France and Italy ; the toils of which , though not in description very formidable , somewhat sorely tried a sedentary habit and rather corpulent body . The only English avocation which he engaged in was , oddly enough , war . It does ...
... France and Italy ; the toils of which , though not in description very formidable , somewhat sorely tried a sedentary habit and rather corpulent body . The only English avocation which he engaged in was , oddly enough , war . It does ...
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... France and less in England ; yet his cold and discriminating intellect at once emancipated him from the sophistries which imposed on those less watchful . He wrote to Gibbon , " I have only one objection , derived from the language in ...
... France and less in England ; yet his cold and discriminating intellect at once emancipated him from the sophistries which imposed on those less watchful . He wrote to Gibbon , " I have only one objection , derived from the language in ...
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... France an upper - class world . After his return to England , Gibbon did not do much or live long . He completed his Memoirs , the most imposing of domestic narratives , the model of dignified detail . As we said before , if the Roman ...
... France an upper - class world . After his return to England , Gibbon did not do much or live long . He completed his Memoirs , the most imposing of domestic narratives , the model of dignified detail . As we said before , if the Roman ...
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... France ; and considering the very ab- stract nature of the subject , and how apparently remote it is from any thing which could be supposed to involve the interests or passions of men , it is not less singular to observe the bitter ...
... France ; and considering the very ab- stract nature of the subject , and how apparently remote it is from any thing which could be supposed to involve the interests or passions of men , it is not less singular to observe the bitter ...
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