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Page 53
... talents had merged in another so completely , that it could not be severed ; because , having long been habituated to invent and narrate at the same time , they found it impossible to narrate without inventing . Some capricious and ...
... talents had merged in another so completely , that it could not be severed ; because , having long been habituated to invent and narrate at the same time , they found it impossible to narrate without inventing . Some capricious and ...
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... talents . But his style is not very pleasant ; and his most powerful work , the ac- count of the Conspiracy of Catiline , has ra- ther the air of a clever party pamphlet than that of a history . It abounds with strange in - tration ...
... talents . But his style is not very pleasant ; and his most powerful work , the ac- count of the Conspiracy of Catiline , has ra- ther the air of a clever party pamphlet than that of a history . It abounds with strange in - tration ...
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... talents , and of great virtues ; but , we apprehend , infinitely too fas- tidicus for public life . He did not perceive that in such times as those on which his lot had fallen , the duty of a statesman is to choose the better cause ...
... talents , and of great virtues ; but , we apprehend , infinitely too fas- tidicus for public life . He did not perceive that in such times as those on which his lot had fallen , the duty of a statesman is to choose the better cause ...
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... talents , could have any unworthy reason for shrinking from military enterprise . This reproach is his highest glory . In the success of the English navy he could have no selfish interests . Its triumphs added nothing to his fame ; its ...
... talents , could have any unworthy reason for shrinking from military enterprise . This reproach is his highest glory . In the success of the English navy he could have no selfish interests . Its triumphs added nothing to his fame ; its ...
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... talents were displayed by any Englishman ; no extraordinary risks were run ; no sacrifices were made , except the sacrifice which Church- ill made of honour , and Anne of natural affec tion . Never was there less of national feeling ...
... talents were displayed by any Englishman ; no extraordinary risks were run ; no sacrifices were made , except the sacrifice which Church- ill made of honour , and Anne of natural affec tion . Never was there less of national feeling ...
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