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Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 1 - Robespierre)

John Morley

A French writer has recently published a careful and interesting volume on the famous events which ended in the overthrow of Robespierre and the close of the Reign of Terror. These events are known in..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 2 - Carlyle)

John Morley

The new library edition of Mr. Carlyle's works may be taken for the final presentation of all that the author has to say to his contemporaries, and to possess the settled form in which he wishes his w..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 3 - Byron)

John Morley

It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution. Nowhere is the antipathy to princip..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 4 - Macaulay )

John Morley

'After glancing my eye over the design and order of a new book,' says Gibbon, 'I suspended the perusal till I had finished the task of self-examination, till I had revolved in a solitary walk all that..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (Essay 1 - Vauvenargues )

John Morley

One of the most important phases of French thought in the great century of its illumination is only thoroughly intelligible, on condition that in studying it we keep constantly in mind the eloquence, ..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (Essay 2 - Condorcet)

John Morley

Of the illustrious thinkers and writers who for two generations had been actively scattering the seed of revolution in France, only Condorcet survived to behold the first bitter in gathering of the ha..

Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 1 of 2)

John Morley

The present work closes a series of studies on the literary preparation for the French Revolution. It differs from the companion volumes on Voltaire and Rousseau, in being much more fully descriptive...