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Page viii
... mind , proved only too clearly by the paralytic stroke which made its appearance , as is so often the case in similar circumstances , just as the strain began to be relaxed . One of Lord Melbourne's characteristics , which I must not ...
... mind , proved only too clearly by the paralytic stroke which made its appearance , as is so often the case in similar circumstances , just as the strain began to be relaxed . One of Lord Melbourne's characteristics , which I must not ...
Page ix
... mind and his high character , there is not much to be added or desired ; but the whole personality of the man , the eccentricity and the brilliancy and the warmth , have disappeared . Hayward's essays represent something of the wit and ...
... mind and his high character , there is not much to be added or desired ; but the whole personality of the man , the eccentricity and the brilliancy and the warmth , have disappeared . Hayward's essays represent something of the wit and ...
Page xii
... mind disappointing , and it would have required at the time a good judge of character to predict from their perusal the future eminence of the writer . There is a self - sufficiency and priggishness in the youth who wrote them difficult ...
... mind disappointing , and it would have required at the time a good judge of character to predict from their perusal the future eminence of the writer . There is a self - sufficiency and priggishness in the youth who wrote them difficult ...
Page xiii
... mind from other sources will , I think , discern in them a tendency kept under restraint , but constantly escaping from it , to connect the matter in question with some general principle . I fancy I can see signs here and there of a ...
... mind from other sources will , I think , discern in them a tendency kept under restraint , but constantly escaping from it , to connect the matter in question with some general principle . I fancy I can see signs here and there of a ...
Page xiv
... that the great question about Lord Melbourne's life , as to which our public has not yet made up its mind , is what part he really took in the administration of his own Government . Every- body xiv LORD MELBOURNE'S PAPERS.
... that the great question about Lord Melbourne's life , as to which our public has not yet made up its mind , is what part he really took in the administration of his own Government . Every- body xiv LORD MELBOURNE'S PAPERS.
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