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... things requires a matured faculty . The ridiculous is caught more easily . With Mrs. Austen for an adviser , and perhaps with her assistance , he composed a book which , however absurd in its plot and glaring in its affectation ...
... things requires a matured faculty . The ridiculous is caught more easily . With Mrs. Austen for an adviser , and perhaps with her assistance , he composed a book which , however absurd in its plot and glaring in its affectation ...
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... inspired by hatred and scorn of his race . The satire of Disraeli is pleasant , laughing , and good- humoured . In all his life he never hated anybody or any- thing , never bore a grudge or remembered a libel 26 LORD BEACONSFIELD.
... inspired by hatred and scorn of his race . The satire of Disraeli is pleasant , laughing , and good- humoured . In all his life he never hated anybody or any- thing , never bore a grudge or remembered a libel 26 LORD BEACONSFIELD.
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James Anthony Froude. thing , never bore a grudge or remembered a libel against himself . Popanilla is a native of an unknown island in an unknown part of the Pacific , an island where modern civilisation had never penetrated and life ...
James Anthony Froude. thing , never bore a grudge or remembered a libel against himself . Popanilla is a native of an unknown island in an unknown part of the Pacific , an island where modern civilisation had never penetrated and life ...
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... things we met , and the impending danger made a delightful life , and had it not been for the great enemy I should have given myself up entirely to the magic of the life . But that spoiled all . It is not worse . Sometimes I think it ...
... things we met , and the impending danger made a delightful life , and had it not been for the great enemy I should have given myself up entirely to the magic of the life . But that spoiled all . It is not worse . Sometimes I think it ...
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... things , and though he had at first failed he succeeded at last . This was true ; but poetry was not one of these many things . He was wise enough to accept the unfavourable verdict , and to recognise that , although his ambition was ...
... things , and though he had at first failed he succeeded at last . This was true ; but poetry was not one of these many things . He was wise enough to accept the unfavourable verdict , and to recognise that , although his ambition was ...
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Page 235 - If you look to the history of this country since the advent of Liberalism — forty years ago — you will find that there has been no effort so continuous, so subtle, supported by so much energy, and carried on with so much ability and acumen, as the attempts of Liberalism to effect the disintegration of the Empire of England.
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Page 106 - ... to me of conservative principles; but he does not inform me what they are. I observe indeed a party in the State whose rule it is to consent to no change, until it is clamorously called for, and then instantly to yield; but those are concessionary, not conservative principles. This party treats institutions as we do our pheasants, they preserve only to destroy them.
Page 107 - We owe the English peerage to three sources: the spoliation of the Church; the open and flagrant sale of its honours by the elder Stuarts; and the borough-mongering of our own times.