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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: son, however, took no step in her favour. We have no account whatever of her end, except that she died in April, 1694. Her remains were torn from the grave by the mob of Chateauroux during the insanity of 1793, and Lord Mahon's researches as to her epitaph only ascertained that the marble on which it was inscribed had been sold to a builder. When we reviewed the later volumes of our author's ' History of England, ' we took the liberty of finding fault with him for giving his admirable characters of various eminent persons before the course of his narrative had embraced their actions. On the present occasion his Lordship begins and closes without any attempt whatever to sum up the qualities either of Conde or of Clemence. We are sorry for this, but not quite so vain as to try what he has chosen to avoid; and if formal characters may be dispensed with in any biographical work, it is certainly in one where the facts have been compiled and collected with the care and fairness, and commented on, as they occur, with the good sense and good feeling of Lord Mahon. Art. V.?The Bible in Spain. By George Borrow. London. 1842. 2 vols. 12mo. TV/I R. Sorrow's book on the ' Gipsies of Spain, ' published a -L J- couple of years ago, was so much and so well reviewed (though not, to our shame be it said, in our own Journal), that we cannot suppose his name is new to any of our readers. Its literary merits were considerable?but balanced by equal demerits. Nothing more vivid and picturesque than many of its descriptions of scenery and sketches of adventure: nothing more weak and confused than every attempt either at a chain of reasoning, or even a consecutive narrative of events that it included. It was evidently the work of a man of uncommon and highly interesting character and endowments; b..
| ISBN-13 | 9781458905338 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458905330 |
| Weight | 1.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 In |
| List Price | $35.54 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 450 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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