Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Том 2Hart, Carey & Hart, 1854 |
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... Montagu , as well for his very valuable edition of Lord Bacon's Works , as for the instructive Life of the immortal author , contained in the last volume . We have much to say on the subject of this Life , and will often find ourselves ...
... Montagu , as well for his very valuable edition of Lord Bacon's Works , as for the instructive Life of the immortal author , contained in the last volume . We have much to say on the subject of this Life , and will often find ourselves ...
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... Montagu's faith is sincere and implicit . He practises no trickery . He conceals nothing . He puts the facts before us in the full confidence that they will produce on our minds the effect which they have pro- duced on his own . It is ...
... Montagu's faith is sincere and implicit . He practises no trickery . He conceals nothing . He puts the facts before us in the full confidence that they will produce on our minds the effect which they have pro- duced on his own . It is ...
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... Montagu is more charitable . He supposes that Burleigh was influenced merely by affection for his nephew , and was " little disposed to encourage him to rely on others rather than on himself , and to venture on the quicksands of poli ...
... Montagu is more charitable . He supposes that Burleigh was influenced merely by affection for his nephew , and was " little disposed to encourage him to rely on others rather than on himself , and to venture on the quicksands of poli ...
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... Montagu not merely excusable , but deserving of high admiration . integrity and benevolence of this gentleman are so well known , that our readers will probably be at a loss to con- ceive by what steps he can have arrived at so ...
... Montagu not merely excusable , but deserving of high admiration . integrity and benevolence of this gentleman are so well known , that our readers will probably be at a loss to con- ceive by what steps he can have arrived at so ...
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... Montagu did not press this argument a little further . He might have maintained that Bacon was fully justified in revenging himself on a man who had attempted to rescue his youth from a salutary yoke imposed on it by the queen , who had ...
... Montagu did not press this argument a little further . He might have maintained that Bacon was fully justified in revenging himself on a man who had attempted to rescue his youth from a salutary yoke imposed on it by the queen , who had ...
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