The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... racter . -- Edward Gibbon , the historian , was born on the 27th of April 1737. Of his mother we hear scarcely any thing ; and what we do hear is not remarkably favourable . It seems that she was a faint inoffensive woman , of ordinary ...
... racter . -- Edward Gibbon , the historian , was born on the 27th of April 1737. Of his mother we hear scarcely any thing ; and what we do hear is not remarkably favourable . It seems that she was a faint inoffensive woman , of ordinary ...
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... racter of the earliest fathers ; whether to the second or to the third century , or , with the generality of our writers , means also to include the fourth . But to whatever But to whatever age he may restrain it , the difficulty at ...
... racter of the earliest fathers ; whether to the second or to the third century , or , with the generality of our writers , means also to include the fourth . But to whatever But to whatever age he may restrain it , the difficulty at ...
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... universal effects . It follows , that universal history necessarily partakes of the cha- racter of a summary . You cannot recount the cumbrous annals ; of long epochs without condensation , selection , and 30 Edward Gibbon .
... universal effects . It follows , that universal history necessarily partakes of the cha- racter of a summary . You cannot recount the cumbrous annals ; of long epochs without condensation , selection , and 30 Edward Gibbon .
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... racter should not have been popular , is easily understood ; they were beyond the capacity of the audience , and were not set off by any attractions in the manner of the lecturer . The style was indeed precise , and clear to one ...
... racter should not have been popular , is easily understood ; they were beyond the capacity of the audience , and were not set off by any attractions in the manner of the lecturer . The style was indeed precise , and clear to one ...
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... racter of this wonderful agent had been attained . A few isolated speculations had indeed been put forth respecting a theory of emitted molecules on the one hand , and of waves in an ethereal medium on the other , and a few experimental ...
... racter of this wonderful agent had been attained . A few isolated speculations had indeed been put forth respecting a theory of emitted molecules on the one hand , and of waves in an ethereal medium on the other , and a few experimental ...
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