The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen76A. Constable, 1843 |
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... manner , and his obvious honesty of purpose - all combine to make his narrative on the whole both interesting and impressive . We cannot speak so favourably of the disquisitions on political events , and characters , which abound ...
... manner , and his obvious honesty of purpose - all combine to make his narrative on the whole both interesting and impressive . We cannot speak so favourably of the disquisitions on political events , and characters , which abound ...
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... manner . We think his descriptions a softened , and in some respects an improved copy of those of his great original . But Colonel Napier's battle - pieces are in a style which will not bear softening - we had almost said , in a style ...
... manner . We think his descriptions a softened , and in some respects an improved copy of those of his great original . But Colonel Napier's battle - pieces are in a style which will not bear softening - we had almost said , in a style ...
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... manners . To such judges an English gentleman may appear a far less romantic personage than the imbecile Spaniard , in whose veins stagnates the blue blood of Guzman or Mendoza ; or than the servile and frivolous Austrian , whose worst ...
... manners . To such judges an English gentleman may appear a far less romantic personage than the imbecile Spaniard , in whose veins stagnates the blue blood of Guzman or Mendoza ; or than the servile and frivolous Austrian , whose worst ...
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... manner as to deprive them of their reward ; and it is doubly mortifying to an Englishman to find his countrymen , after a useless display of strength and courage , baffled and dishonoured by the folly or corruption of an irrespon- sible ...
... manner as to deprive them of their reward ; and it is doubly mortifying to an Englishman to find his countrymen , after a useless display of strength and courage , baffled and dishonoured by the folly or corruption of an irrespon- sible ...
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... manner , had the English people been trodden down by tyrants when their liberties were insecure , they would have become cowardly , cruel , and revengeful . They may still become so , if those liberties should ever be abandoned . But ...
... manner , had the English people been trodden down by tyrants when their liberties were insecure , they would have become cowardly , cruel , and revengeful . They may still become so , if those liberties should ever be abandoned . But ...
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