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" materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted." ' How much this letter pleased Macaulay is indicated by the fact of his having kept it unburned : a compliment which, except in this single instance, he never... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 569
1876
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William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Fifty Years of ..., Volumes 1-2

Thomas Archer - Great Britain - 1883 - 736 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with the subject; inasmuch as the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted. " I did not mean to have troubled you at so much length, and I have only to add that I am, with much...
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An apology for the life of ... W.E. Gladstone; or, The new politics

1885 - 376 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with a subject upon which the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted.' That Macaulay was pleased with this tribute is oddly inferred from the fact that he kept it for years,...
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William Ewart Gladstone: A Biographical Study

Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1898 - 432 pages
...recollection of your mode of dealing with the subject; inasmuch as the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper, in which the search for it is instituted and conducted. "I did not mean to have troubled you at so much length, and I have only to add that I am, with much...
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Collectanea: Essays, Addresses and Reviews

Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - Jurisprudence - 1899 - 456 pages
...is printed in full in the admirable biography of his uncle by Sir George Trevelyan, who tells us " how much this letter pleased Macaulay is indicated...instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents." Many years afterwards it was Gladstone's turn, taking Trevelyan's Life as a text, to write an article...
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William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Seventy Years of ..., Volume 1

Thomas Archen, Alfred Thomas Story - Great Britain - 1903 - 416 pages
...of your mode of dealing with the subject ; inasmuch as the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted. " I did not mean to have troubled you at so much length, and I have only to add that I am, with much...
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