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Page 10
... illustration of Brougham's incessant advocacy of reform , which the facetious statesman said was ever brought forward as a nostrum for all evils . Was there an epidemic ? try Reform in parliament , cried Mr. Brougham ! —was there an ...
... illustration of Brougham's incessant advocacy of reform , which the facetious statesman said was ever brought forward as a nostrum for all evils . Was there an epidemic ? try Reform in parliament , cried Mr. Brougham ! —was there an ...
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... illustration of a battle with the Newspapers . While , however , we deprecate the commission of so great a folly as a legal prosecution , we think we have a perfect right to turn round and criticise the critics ; singular enough , they ...
... illustration of a battle with the Newspapers . While , however , we deprecate the commission of so great a folly as a legal prosecution , we think we have a perfect right to turn round and criticise the critics ; singular enough , they ...
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... illustrated this position with many instances of men , whose religious opinions we well knew , and in every instance he pre- sented us with a key to the man's whole character . This undeviating coherency is forcibly exemplified in many ...
... illustrated this position with many instances of men , whose religious opinions we well knew , and in every instance he pre- sented us with a key to the man's whole character . This undeviating coherency is forcibly exemplified in many ...
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... illustration . He told us that notwithstanding all he had read and all he had written on the horrors of war , he had never his mind filled with the perfect idea of its gigantic lawlessness , till on the occasion of a review , or sham ...
... illustration . He told us that notwithstanding all he had read and all he had written on the horrors of war , he had never his mind filled with the perfect idea of its gigantic lawlessness , till on the occasion of a review , or sham ...
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... illustration of the subject we quote it . We cannot here avoid remarking , that a very interesting volume might be made of selections from the works of the most eminent poets containing the expression of parallel feelings . " ON A ...
... illustration of the subject we quote it . We cannot here avoid remarking , that a very interesting volume might be made of selections from the works of the most eminent poets containing the expression of parallel feelings . " ON A ...
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