Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volym 2W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... literary and political criticism has taken in our days , most assuredly it would be on no living head that he would think of laying such a bur- den . He regards the Scotch philosophers of the present day , and among , or above the rest ...
... literary and political criticism has taken in our days , most assuredly it would be on no living head that he would think of laying such a bur- den . He regards the Scotch philosophers of the present day , and among , or above the rest ...
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... the sorrow- ful feelings with which he is accustomed to con- template the main sin , which has disfigured and debased the splendid literary career of Mr Jef- frey . That such , however , must inevitably be the course 134 EDINBURGH REVIEW .
... the sorrow- ful feelings with which he is accustomed to con- template the main sin , which has disfigured and debased the splendid literary career of Mr Jef- frey . That such , however , must inevitably be the course 134 EDINBURGH REVIEW .
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... literary character . They are very ill educated in general ; they have no classical learning ; few of them can construe two lines of any Latin poet ; and as for Greek , they scarcely know which end of the book should be held to their ...
... literary character . They are very ill educated in general ; they have no classical learning ; few of them can construe two lines of any Latin poet ; and as for Greek , they scarcely know which end of the book should be held to their ...
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... literary men of the last age , who lived in Edinburgh , there was no one who ever thought of publishing his books in Edinburgh . The trade here never aspired to anything beyond forming a very humble appendage of understrappers to the ...
... literary men of the last age , who lived in Edinburgh , there was no one who ever thought of publishing his books in Edinburgh . The trade here never aspired to anything beyond forming a very humble appendage of understrappers to the ...
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... literary adventure had never approached the bibliopoles of Edinburgh . They never dreamed of making fortunes for them- selves , far less of being the means of bestowing fortunes upon others , by carrying on operations in the large and ...
... literary adventure had never approached the bibliopoles of Edinburgh . They never dreamed of making fortunes for them- selves , far less of being the means of bestowing fortunes upon others , by carrying on operations in the large and ...
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