The Edinburgh Review, Volume 76A. and C. Black, 1843 - English literature |
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... effect . . 6 6 as were Figurative illustrations are as fatal to Mr Alison as they are , in- deed , to most writers who are at once careless and ambitious . His opinion of the age of George III . is expressed by an astrono- mical ...
... effect . . 6 6 as were Figurative illustrations are as fatal to Mr Alison as they are , in- deed , to most writers who are at once careless and ambitious . His opinion of the age of George III . is expressed by an astrono- mical ...
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... effect . Still , Mr Alison's finest descriptions are occasionally marred by the same faults which we have remarked in his political dissertations ; by the same tendency to flights of poetical extra- vagance ; the same wearisome ...
... effect . Still , Mr Alison's finest descriptions are occasionally marred by the same faults which we have remarked in his political dissertations ; by the same tendency to flights of poetical extra- vagance ; the same wearisome ...
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... effect ; and because they can be far more imposingly supplied by the imagina- tion of the reader . It is not by such rhetorical arts as these , that the great masters of history have produced their most successful effects . Thucydides ...
... effect ; and because they can be far more imposingly supplied by the imagina- tion of the reader . It is not by such rhetorical arts as these , that the great masters of history have produced their most successful effects . Thucydides ...
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... effects , and in the end produced ' evils far greater than those they were intended to remove . ' It would seem , ' he ... effect of his able and conclusive details , by a solution so feeble and unmeaning as the above . We forgive the ...
... effects , and in the end produced ' evils far greater than those they were intended to remove . ' It would seem , ' he ... effect of his able and conclusive details , by a solution so feeble and unmeaning as the above . We forgive the ...
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... effect in exciting or restraining popular revenge . We need not remind our readers of the various unhappy ... effects of the Revolution itself . Sudden anarchy may bring evil passions and infidel ' opinions to light ; but we do not ...
... effect in exciting or restraining popular revenge . We need not remind our readers of the various unhappy ... effects of the Revolution itself . Sudden anarchy may bring evil passions and infidel ' opinions to light ; but we do not ...
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