The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen76A. Constable, 1843 |
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... effect . Figurative illustrations are as fatal to Mr Alison as they are , in- deed , to most writers who are at once careless and ambitious . His opinion of the age of George III . is expressed by an astrono- mical metaphor , which he ...
... effect . Figurative illustrations are as fatal to Mr Alison as they are , in- deed , to most writers who are at once careless and ambitious . His opinion of the age of George III . is expressed by an astrono- mical metaphor , which he ...
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... effect . Still , Mr Alison's finest descriptions are occasionally marred by the same faults which we have remarked in his political dissertations ; by the same tendency to flights of poetical extra- vagance ; the same wearisome ...
... effect . Still , Mr Alison's finest descriptions are occasionally marred by the same faults which we have remarked in his political dissertations ; by the same tendency to flights of poetical extra- vagance ; the same wearisome ...
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... effect ; and because they can be far more imposingly supplied by the imagina- tion of the reader . It is not by such rhetorical arts as these , that the great masters of history have produced their most successful effects . Thucydides ...
... effect ; and because they can be far more imposingly supplied by the imagina- tion of the reader . It is not by such rhetorical arts as these , that the great masters of history have produced their most successful effects . Thucydides ...
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... effects - he is a rigid , a sincere , and an intolerant Tory . This is the whole extent of his offence . His opinions are displayed with sufficient fairness , if not always with per- fect taste and modesty ; -he does not permit them to ...
... effects - he is a rigid , a sincere , and an intolerant Tory . This is the whole extent of his offence . His opinions are displayed with sufficient fairness , if not always with per- fect taste and modesty ; -he does not permit them to ...
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... effects , and in the end produced ' evils far greater than those they were intended to remove . 6 It would seem , ' he ... effect of his able and conclusive details , by a solution so feeble and unmeaning as the above . We forgive the ...
... effects , and in the end produced ' evils far greater than those they were intended to remove . 6 It would seem , ' he ... effect of his able and conclusive details , by a solution so feeble and unmeaning as the above . We forgive the ...
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