The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 76Leonard Scott Publication Company, 1843 - English literature |
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... thought it ungenerous to mortify the author of a valuable and laborious work , by cavilling at the false taste of its embel- lishments . But we cannot imagine that this is the case . It is impossible that a man of Mr Alison's talents ...
... thought it ungenerous to mortify the author of a valuable and laborious work , by cavilling at the false taste of its embel- lishments . But we cannot imagine that this is the case . It is impossible that a man of Mr Alison's talents ...
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... thought that the subject of our dissent from Mr Alison's opinion is merely theoretical , and there- fore scarcely worth discussion . But this is far from being the If Mr Alison is right , every political innovation , in every country ...
... thought that the subject of our dissent from Mr Alison's opinion is merely theoretical , and there- fore scarcely worth discussion . But this is far from being the If Mr Alison is right , every political innovation , in every country ...
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... thought of in 1688. And we have no doubt that there were honest Conservatives in the ninth and thirteenth centuries , who dreaded King Alfred as a radical reformer , and thought Magna Charta a fatal innova- tion . We are none of those ...
... thought of in 1688. And we have no doubt that there were honest Conservatives in the ninth and thirteenth centuries , who dreaded King Alfred as a radical reformer , and thought Magna Charta a fatal innova- tion . We are none of those ...
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... thought advisable , pay it off in ten or twelve years , merely by applying to its reduction the surplus of our present annual income . But the vast strength of the British empire was to be proved in a far more wonderful man- ner . In ...
... thought advisable , pay it off in ten or twelve years , merely by applying to its reduction the surplus of our present annual income . But the vast strength of the British empire was to be proved in a far more wonderful man- ner . In ...
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... thought the example less striking . But it was not so . Not only did the general tranquillity pass as a thing of course , but the few and slight symptoms of insubordination which did appear , excited universal alarm and indignation ...
... thought the example less striking . But it was not so . Not only did the general tranquillity pass as a thing of course , but the few and slight symptoms of insubordination which did appear , excited universal alarm and indignation ...
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