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Pagina xi
... says Macaulay , " as we can conceive him , clad in his dressing- gown , and freed from his wig , stepping from his parlour at Chelsea into his trim little garden , with the account of the Everlasting Club , or the Loves of Hilpa and ...
... says Macaulay , " as we can conceive him , clad in his dressing- gown , and freed from his wig , stepping from his parlour at Chelsea into his trim little garden , with the account of the Everlasting Club , or the Loves of Hilpa and ...
Pagina xiii
... says 2 Macaulay , " the templar , the clergyman , the soldier , 1Courthope , Addison , English Men of Letters Series , pp . 87 , 8 . 2 Essay on Addison . and the merchant , were uninteresting figures , fit only INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... says 2 Macaulay , " the templar , the clergyman , the soldier , 1Courthope , Addison , English Men of Letters Series , pp . 87 , 8 . 2 Essay on Addison . and the merchant , were uninteresting figures , fit only INTRODUCTION . xiii.
Pagina xix
... say that " whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " He must do so , however , with a contented foreknowledge ...
... say that " whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " He must do so , however , with a contented foreknowledge ...
Pagina 2
... say , that my parts were solid , and would wear well . I had not been long at the university , before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence : for , during the space of eight years , excepting in the public exercises of the ...
... say , that my parts were solid , and would wear well . I had not been long at the university , before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence : for , during the space of eight years , excepting in the public exercises of the ...
Pagina 8
... says that England may be richer than other kingdoms , by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men ; though at the same time I can say this of him , that there is not a point in the compass , but blows home a ship in which ...
... says that England may be richer than other kingdoms , by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men ; though at the same time I can say this of him , that there is not a point in the compass , but blows home a ship in which ...
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