 | London Mayfair - 1874 - 468 páginas
...Portraits and fine full-page Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 'ls. 6^. "We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...composition, it deserves to be classed among the best spectmens of English prose which our age has produced. It contains, indeed, no single passage equal... | |
 | Philip Bourke Marston - 1875 - 272 páginas
...io6opp., with Twelve full-page Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7-T..6V. " We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...but, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
 | Eliza Lynn - 1875 - 350 páginas
...io6opp., with Twelve full-page Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7*. 6</. "We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...but, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1875 - 722 páginas
...io6opp., with Twelve fine full-page Plates. Cr. 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, js. 6d. "We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...but, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
 | William Edward Windus - 1875 - 218 páginas
...io6opp., with Twelve full-page Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7*. 6d. "We have read this book with the greatest .pleasure. Considered merely as...but, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 páginas
...tciY/i Xoticet (if hit Life. By TIIOMAS MOOBB, Esq. 2vols.4to. London: 1830. WE have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...contains, indeed, no single passage equal to two or three wliich we could select from the Life of Sheridan. But, as a whole, it is immeasurably superior to that... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1875 - 562 páginas
...read this book with the greatest pleusure. Considered merely ua composition, it deserve* to be clussed among the best specimens of English prose which our...three which we could select from the Life of Sheridan ; out, as a whole, it i* immeusurably superior to that work. The style is agreeable, clear, and manly,... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1875 - 388 páginas
...1060 pp., with Twelve full-page Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7$. 6d, " We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
 | Henry Kingsley - 1875 - 288 páginas
...io6o pp., with Twelve full-page Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, js. 6d. "We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
 | Herbert Byng Hall - 1875 - 346 páginas
...1060 pp., with Twelve full-page Plates. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d. "We have read this book with the greatest pleasure. Considered merely as a...specimens of English prose which our age has produced. . . . The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort... | |
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The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book which exhibits more kindness, fairness, and modesty. 
