The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Том 33Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1854 |
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... opinion , however , is not maintained without partial remonstrance ; people who have cared to examine the authentic accounts of the times , having perceived very clearly on how slight a foundation the popular judgments of them are based ...
... opinion , however , is not maintained without partial remonstrance ; people who have cared to examine the authentic accounts of the times , having perceived very clearly on how slight a foundation the popular judgments of them are based ...
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... opinion produced by it . He remains where fortune flung him , to point a moral of fallen ambition ; in fact , as Shake- speare left him a vulgar , unlovely figure , arrogant in prosperity , and mean in his ruin- a person in whose ...
... opinion produced by it . He remains where fortune flung him , to point a moral of fallen ambition ; in fact , as Shake- speare left him a vulgar , unlovely figure , arrogant in prosperity , and mean in his ruin- a person in whose ...
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... opinion , more ready to generalize a habit out of an act . And if we are to believe the fact of the habit , it implies an amount of hypocrisy and insincerity in Wolsey , which it is difficult to believe could have existed in any man who ...
... opinion , more ready to generalize a habit out of an act . And if we are to believe the fact of the habit , it implies an amount of hypocrisy and insincerity in Wolsey , which it is difficult to believe could have existed in any man who ...
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... opinion upon every thing , whether they have or have not a right to have formed one , and guessing with the utmost facility , almost always guess wrong . Brought up as a page in Wolsey's household , he knew as much , perhaps , of the ...
... opinion upon every thing , whether they have or have not a right to have formed one , and guessing with the utmost facility , almost always guess wrong . Brought up as a page in Wolsey's household , he knew as much , perhaps , of the ...
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... beyond his own recollections , he wrote only what other people told him , in the tone in which they told it , yielding to the stream of popular opinion which set against Wolsey immediately after his 6 [ Sept. CARDINAL WOLSEY .
... beyond his own recollections , he wrote only what other people told him , in the tone in which they told it , yielding to the stream of popular opinion which set against Wolsey immediately after his 6 [ Sept. CARDINAL WOLSEY .
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