A Critical Enquiry Regarding the Real Author of the Letters of Junius: Proving Them to Have Been Written by Lord Viscount SackvilleW. Phillips, 1825 - 382 pages |
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Page ii
... present hour have so borne the test of criticism as to merit the unfad- ing laurel . The present Enquiry is submitted to the public , with full assurance that the Noble- man in question is entitled to that honour . Sel- dom , if ever ...
... present hour have so borne the test of criticism as to merit the unfad- ing laurel . The present Enquiry is submitted to the public , with full assurance that the Noble- man in question is entitled to that honour . Sel- dom , if ever ...
Page iii
... present volume to an unnecessary size , were I to enter into the claims of those who have been brought forward as candidates for the authorship of the Letters in question ; they have all been ably refuted by men of far keener ...
... present volume to an unnecessary size , were I to enter into the claims of those who have been brought forward as candidates for the authorship of the Letters in question ; they have all been ably refuted by men of far keener ...
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... present claimant , with remarks of his having been strongly suspected ; but in no one instance have I ever met with an investigation of those claims , or an attempt to disprove those suspicions , further than from ge- neral surmise ...
... present claimant , with remarks of his having been strongly suspected ; but in no one instance have I ever met with an investigation of those claims , or an attempt to disprove those suspicions , further than from ge- neral surmise ...
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... present undertaking ; also for granting me a fac - simile of his Lordship's hand - writing when Secretary of State , which is affixed to an official document preserved among his valuable collection of Autographs . To Mr. G. Woodfall I ...
... present undertaking ; also for granting me a fac - simile of his Lordship's hand - writing when Secretary of State , which is affixed to an official document preserved among his valuable collection of Autographs . To Mr. G. Woodfall I ...
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... particularly obliged by his permitting me to see the letters which were written by Lord George from Culloden and Minden ; hoping that the b liberality which so conspicuously characterizes the nobility of the present PREFATORY REMARKS .
... particularly obliged by his permitting me to see the letters which were written by Lord George from Culloden and Minden ; hoping that the b liberality which so conspicuously characterizes the nobility of the present PREFATORY REMARKS .
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