National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century: With Memoirs, Volume 3Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1832 - Great Britain |
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... spirit of a work which is only anxious to deserve well , that it should resort to professions , or have recourse to that system of boast , which is but too much employed to catch popularity . We trust , however , it will not be ...
... spirit of a work which is only anxious to deserve well , that it should resort to professions , or have recourse to that system of boast , which is but too much employed to catch popularity . We trust , however , it will not be ...
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... spirit of the Navigation Act , first drew my attention to the commercial interests of my country . We visited the different islands together ; and , as much as the ma- nœuvres of fleets can be described off the headlands of islands , we ...
... spirit of the Navigation Act , first drew my attention to the commercial interests of my country . We visited the different islands together ; and , as much as the ma- nœuvres of fleets can be described off the headlands of islands , we ...
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... spirit ran very high , and the dissension could scarcely be more inveterate : yet so gra- ciously and judiciously has His Royal Highness conducted him- self since , that he has vanquished the objections of his warmest opponents ; and we ...
... spirit ran very high , and the dissension could scarcely be more inveterate : yet so gra- ciously and judiciously has His Royal Highness conducted him- self since , that he has vanquished the objections of his warmest opponents ; and we ...
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... spirit were unprepared to encounter . Yet his letters about this date depict his circumstances with admirable humour and effect ; and furnish the earliest evidence of the fertile fancy and original wit which afterwards constituted his ...
... spirit were unprepared to encounter . Yet his letters about this date depict his circumstances with admirable humour and effect ; and furnish the earliest evidence of the fertile fancy and original wit which afterwards constituted his ...
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... spirit , by views of preferment or the thirst of fame , her intellec- tual gladiators were precipitated into the senate , ever the fittest and noblest arena for the efforts , the tests , and the victories of talent . Questions of great ...
... spirit , by views of preferment or the thirst of fame , her intellec- tual gladiators were precipitated into the senate , ever the fittest and noblest arena for the efforts , the tests , and the victories of talent . Questions of great ...
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