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THE VANITY OF HONOURS AND OF TITLES

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`True quality is neglected, virtue is oppressed, and vice triumphant' Vix ea nostra vow:— OVID. Met. xiii, 141 These I scarce call our own. There are but few men, who are not...

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From the 'Spectator', 31 December 1870—The Mont Cenis Tunnel, as it is called, between France and Italy, was 'completed', that is, cut through, on Saturday. It is really a...

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The essay called 'Comedy in the Grand Style' seems to

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me the least satisfactory in the book. It is characteristic of Professor Leech that he should insist upon a head-on encounter with the problem raised by his own particular...

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