The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen 76A. Constable, 1843 |
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... believe we speak within compass when we say , that it would be difficult to select half - a - dozen consecutive pages , from any part of Mr Alison's work , in which one or more passages of at least equally faulty construction might not ...
... believe we speak within compass when we say , that it would be difficult to select half - a - dozen consecutive pages , from any part of Mr Alison's work , in which one or more passages of at least equally faulty construction might not ...
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... believe it to be peculiar to this branch of the narrative . We allude to the occasional substitution of the present for the past tense in the relation of events . It is one of the most unimpressive and unpleasing artifices which a ...
... believe it to be peculiar to this branch of the narrative . We allude to the occasional substitution of the present for the past tense in the relation of events . It is one of the most unimpressive and unpleasing artifices which a ...
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... believe that they seldom occur , except in cases where hope- less slavery and irreparable decay are the only alternatives . There is no doubt that the French Revolution was an instance of the worst kind ; -perhaps it was the very worst ...
... believe that they seldom occur , except in cases where hope- less slavery and irreparable decay are the only alternatives . There is no doubt that the French Revolution was an instance of the worst kind ; -perhaps it was the very worst ...
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... believe in human perfectibility , in the sense in which that term is commonly understood . But will Mr Alison allow no schemes of social amelioration short of angelic purity ? — no popular government except by impeccable beings ? Does ...
... believe in human perfectibility , in the sense in which that term is commonly understood . But will Mr Alison allow no schemes of social amelioration short of angelic purity ? — no popular government except by impeccable beings ? Does ...
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... believe in human perfectibility , because we never saw or heard of a perfect man . But we are so fortu- nate as to have known many wise and good men ; many men to whose integrity we would cheerfully entrust our dearest interests . What ...
... believe in human perfectibility , because we never saw or heard of a perfect man . But we are so fortu- nate as to have known many wise and good men ; many men to whose integrity we would cheerfully entrust our dearest interests . What ...
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