The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 76Leonard Scott Publication Company, 1843 - English literature |
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... friend . He will necessarily lose much pleasure , and some instruction ; but a few precautions will ensure him against injury or annoyance . In common with nearly all political writers of the present day , we have had repeated occasion ...
... friend . He will necessarily lose much pleasure , and some instruction ; but a few precautions will ensure him against injury or annoyance . In common with nearly all political writers of the present day , we have had repeated occasion ...
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... friends with surprise and consternation by a slight frown , or a peevish murmur . Such is not Mr Alison's reasoning . He remembers only the panic of the Conservative party , and forgets the insufficiency of the causes which excited it ...
... friends with surprise and consternation by a slight frown , or a peevish murmur . Such is not Mr Alison's reasoning . He remembers only the panic of the Conservative party , and forgets the insufficiency of the causes which excited it ...
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... friend to his country will probably hesitate before he pronounces upon the stability of the English mind under the influence of the prodigious ' excitement likely to have arisen from the promulgation of the ' political innovations which ...
... friend to his country will probably hesitate before he pronounces upon the stability of the English mind under the influence of the prodigious ' excitement likely to have arisen from the promulgation of the ' political innovations which ...
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... crime ? And what would be his sensations if such a suspicion were publicly expressed , and if some Whig friend of his own were to answer it by moralizing upon the frailty of human resolution 1842 . 47 Alison's History of Europe .
... crime ? And what would be his sensations if such a suspicion were publicly expressed , and if some Whig friend of his own were to answer it by moralizing upon the frailty of human resolution 1842 . 47 Alison's History of Europe .
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... friend and associate of the first three of these , and we may also add , of Hawke , Saunders , and Duncan , should ... friends - Rockingham , Shelburne , Richmond , Burke , Fox , and many others of the Whig party . And if he was not so ...
... friend and associate of the first three of these , and we may also add , of Hawke , Saunders , and Duncan , should ... friends - Rockingham , Shelburne , Richmond , Burke , Fox , and many others of the Whig party . And if he was not so ...
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