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Page 59
... style of language lasts from age to age : but the style of conversation varies with every change of fashions , manners , and refinements , and soon loses that instantaneous power of stimulating in which the vivacity of talk and the ...
... style of language lasts from age to age : but the style of conversation varies with every change of fashions , manners , and refinements , and soon loses that instantaneous power of stimulating in which the vivacity of talk and the ...
Page 171
... style of history it were now perhaps romantic to expect , and unjust to demand . We may , indeed , amuse ourselves with dreams of purity and correctness , of the union of strength and elegance , and of that sober but graceful modesty of ...
... style of history it were now perhaps romantic to expect , and unjust to demand . We may , indeed , amuse ourselves with dreams of purity and correctness , of the union of strength and elegance , and of that sober but graceful modesty of ...
Page 287
... style and sentiment , have been adopted by them , which in some instances approach and in others sur- pass the wildness and extravagance of the Germans them- selves in their dark and traditional fables ; and in those ter- rible ...
... style and sentiment , have been adopted by them , which in some instances approach and in others sur- pass the wildness and extravagance of the Germans them- selves in their dark and traditional fables ; and in those ter- rible ...
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Hargroves History of York 110 | 30 |
Bonaparte Napoleon inedited Corre | 37 |
Bowdich on the African Committee | 68 |
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