The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 34Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1849 |
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... writer goes , there is very little which can touch MACAULAY . His admirers are many , and his imitators more ; because those who ad- mire most have not the ability to imitate , while 1849. ] 15 Bunkum Flag - Staff and Independent Echo .
... writer goes , there is very little which can touch MACAULAY . His admirers are many , and his imitators more ; because those who ad- mire most have not the ability to imitate , while 1849. ] 15 Bunkum Flag - Staff and Independent Echo .
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... writes the better we like him for it . From writing with a shade over his eyes he throws the light entirely on the objeck . With a perfect indifference of what any body says of him , he goes right ahead , and writes himself into ...
... writes the better we like him for it . From writing with a shade over his eyes he throws the light entirely on the objeck . With a perfect indifference of what any body says of him , he goes right ahead , and writes himself into ...
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... write satire , he then paints in glowing colors the profligacy of every class of society ; and concludes with some bitter reflections on the dangers to which the satirist was ex- posed , and by expressing his determination of attacking ...
... write satire , he then paints in glowing colors the profligacy of every class of society ; and concludes with some bitter reflections on the dangers to which the satirist was ex- posed , and by expressing his determination of attacking ...
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... writing and publishing , until he was allowed on all hands to be the Napoleon of mathematics . But all earthly things must have an end , and so had Porter . On one un- lucky day he tumbled into a ditch , whose cubical contents he was ...
... writing and publishing , until he was allowed on all hands to be the Napoleon of mathematics . But all earthly things must have an end , and so had Porter . On one un- lucky day he tumbled into a ditch , whose cubical contents he was ...
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... writer's style , bating a little occa sional over - writing , is natural and agreeable ; and he possesses the rare faculty of making the reader see with his eyes . Without attempting a detailed analysis of the work , for which , even ...
... writer's style , bating a little occa sional over - writing , is natural and agreeable ; and he possesses the rare faculty of making the reader see with his eyes . Without attempting a detailed analysis of the work , for which , even ...
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