The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1823 - Books |
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Page 105
... writer has not been able to give any additional interest to his character . He is represented as one whose earlier and purer feelings are all destroyed by his lust of power , which absorbs every other passion ; so that he becomes a cold ...
... writer has not been able to give any additional interest to his character . He is represented as one whose earlier and purer feelings are all destroyed by his lust of power , which absorbs every other passion ; so that he becomes a cold ...
Page 107
... writer's plan of amusing biography . We think , too , on the whole , that the attempt is well executed : but , in ... writer speaks with great familiarity of writers on the philosophy of the mind , but betrays a lamentable ignorance of ...
... writer's plan of amusing biography . We think , too , on the whole , that the attempt is well executed : but , in ... writer speaks with great familiarity of writers on the philosophy of the mind , but betrays a lamentable ignorance of ...
Page 254
... writer , he is still both a very amus- ing and a very productive compiler , - if he will allow of that designation . He makes frequent calls and re - calls on our attention ; and , for the variety and recondite character of his ...
... writer , he is still both a very amus- ing and a very productive compiler , - if he will allow of that designation . He makes frequent calls and re - calls on our attention ; and , for the variety and recondite character of his ...
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