The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 76A. Constable, 1843 |
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... writers on the opposite side to that which an English historian may be supposed to adopt ; and the reader ' will find almost every fact in the internal history of the Revo- ' lution , supported by two Republican and one Royalist autho ...
... writers on the opposite side to that which an English historian may be supposed to adopt ; and the reader ' will find almost every fact in the internal history of the Revo- ' lution , supported by two Republican and one Royalist autho ...
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... writers soar more easily or more securely than they walk ; and Mr Alison's oratorical digressions abound in examples of pointless anti - climax , of quaint and ungrammatical inversion , of the carefully balanced antithesis of synonymous ...
... writers soar more easily or more securely than they walk ; and Mr Alison's oratorical digressions abound in examples of pointless anti - climax , of quaint and ungrammatical inversion , of the carefully balanced antithesis of synonymous ...
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... writers , has been carried by Mr Alison to an almost unprecedented extent . We have neither space nor time to extract ... writer who is scrupulous of historical truth and justice , but negligent of his own literary fame - who lavishes ...
... writers , has been carried by Mr Alison to an almost unprecedented extent . We have neither space nor time to extract ... writer who is scrupulous of historical truth and justice , but negligent of his own literary fame - who lavishes ...
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... writer's imagination , and his unlimited command of pointed and original language , that occasion the principal blemishes in his style . And it is impossible to deny , that when he gives the rein to his fancy , it occasionally hurries ...
... writer's imagination , and his unlimited command of pointed and original language , that occasion the principal blemishes in his style . And it is impossible to deny , that when he gives the rein to his fancy , it occasionally hurries ...
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... writers of the present day , we have had repeated occasion to pronounce our opinion both upon revolutions in general , and in particular upon that which forms the main subject of Mr Alison's history . We shall not , of course , repeat ...
... writers of the present day , we have had repeated occasion to pronounce our opinion both upon revolutions in general , and in particular upon that which forms the main subject of Mr Alison's history . We shall not , of course , repeat ...
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