The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 44A. Constable, 1826 |
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Page 41
... less proof of the historian's sa- gacity than his own original text . But , lest it should be said that these omissions are excused by a faulty , perhaps , but pardonable tenderness for the charac- ter of the restorer of monarchy , it ...
... less proof of the historian's sa- gacity than his own original text . But , lest it should be said that these omissions are excused by a faulty , perhaps , but pardonable tenderness for the charac- ter of the restorer of monarchy , it ...
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... less time than this , any boy of average quickness might learn , by the Hamiltonian method , to construe the whole four Gospels , with the greatest accuracy , and the most scrupulous correctness . interlineal translation of course ...
... less time than this , any boy of average quickness might learn , by the Hamiltonian method , to construe the whole four Gospels , with the greatest accuracy , and the most scrupulous correctness . interlineal translation of course ...
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... less bumped on the roads , better lighted in the streets , and less tormented with grammars and lexicons , than in the preceding age . A great deal of compliment to the wisdom of ancestors , and a great de- gree of alarm at the dreadful ...
... less bumped on the roads , better lighted in the streets , and less tormented with grammars and lexicons , than in the preceding age . A great deal of compliment to the wisdom of ancestors , and a great de- gree of alarm at the dreadful ...
Page 59
... less , and with difficulties in- comparably smaller , than in the old method . There are a certain number of French books , which , when a boy can construe accurately , he may be said , for all purposes of reading , to be master of the ...
... less , and with difficulties in- comparably smaller , than in the old method . There are a certain number of French books , which , when a boy can construe accurately , he may be said , for all purposes of reading , to be master of the ...
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... less degree , at one time or another be encountered , but which may be , and in the Hamil- tonian system are , much more wisely distributed . A boy who sits down to Greek with lexicon and grammar , has to master an unknown character of ...
... less degree , at one time or another be encountered , but which may be , and in the Hamil- tonian system are , much more wisely distributed . A boy who sits down to Greek with lexicon and grammar , has to master an unknown character of ...
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