The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen48A. Constable, 1828 |
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... probably could not be extended with safety to so many as one in a hundred even of those which we praise . For we mean , not merely that the book will be familiarly known and referred to some twenty or thirty years hence , and will pass ...
... probably could not be extended with safety to so many as one in a hundred even of those which we praise . For we mean , not merely that the book will be familiarly known and referred to some twenty or thirty years hence , and will pass ...
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Or Critical Journal. trary , will probably excite more interest with every succeeding generation , till the very end of the world , yet its importance has been already long enough apparent to have attracted the most eager attention to ...
Or Critical Journal. trary , will probably excite more interest with every succeeding generation , till the very end of the world , yet its importance has been already long enough apparent to have attracted the most eager attention to ...
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... probably miss the brilliant , highly finished , and ryth- mical style , which attracted them so much in those performances ; and may find the less artificial and elaborate diction of this his- tory comparatively weak and careless . In ...
... probably miss the brilliant , highly finished , and ryth- mical style , which attracted them so much in those performances ; and may find the less artificial and elaborate diction of this his- tory comparatively weak and careless . In ...
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... probably fall upon those who expect much new in- formation as to the first great voyage of discovery , or suppose that the chief interest of the work must be exhausted by its completion . That portion of the story of Columbus has always ...
... probably fall upon those who expect much new in- formation as to the first great voyage of discovery , or suppose that the chief interest of the work must be exhausted by its completion . That portion of the story of Columbus has always ...
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... probably celebrating , with their national chants and dances , the arrival of the white men . So delightful were these spicy odours and cheerful sounds to Columbus , who was at present open to all pleasurable influences , that he ...
... probably celebrating , with their national chants and dances , the arrival of the white men . So delightful were these spicy odours and cheerful sounds to Columbus , who was at present open to all pleasurable influences , that he ...
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Página 297 - ... their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmly, yet at the same time with modesty. I do not remember any part of his conversation distinctly enough to be quoted ; nor did I ever see him again, except in the street, where he did not recognise me, as I could not expect he should. He was much caressed in Edinburgh : but (considering what literary emoluments...
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