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Title: The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York : The Fifth avenue library society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ting of these individuals in the collective,jiiatados, presents the foulest examples of misbehaviorin the field, of Punic bad faith in the cabinet, of bank-ruptcy and repudiation on the exchange. This may bealso much ascribed to the deteriorating influence of badgovernment, by which the individual Spaniard, like themonk in a convent, becomes fused into the corporate.The atmosphere is too infectious to avoid some corrup-tion, and while the Spaniard feels that his character isonly in safe keeping when in his own hands, and noman of any nation knows better then how to uphold it,when linked with others, his self-pride, impatient of anysuperior, lends itself readily to feelings of mistrust,until self-interest and preservation become uppermost.From suspecting that he will be sold and sacrificed byothers, he ends by floating down the turbid stream likethe rest: yet even official employment does not quitedestroy all private good qualities, and the evipleado maybe appealed to as an individual.
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FORSTER, John, an English biographer, jour=nalist, and historian, born at Newcastle, April 2,1812 ; died February 2, 1876. In 1828 he came toLondon and attended law classes, but devotedhimself mainly to journalism and literary work,although he was formally called to the bar. Hewas successively editor of the Foreign QuarterlyReview, of the Daily News, succeeding Dickens,and of the Examiner, succeeding Fonblanque, hold-ing this last position from 1847 to 1856. In 1861he was appointed a Commissioner in Lunacy. In1855 he married the wealthy widow of HenryColburn, the publisher. For many years he wasa frequent contributor to the Edinburgh, Quarterly,and Foreign Quarterly Reviews, His biographicaland historical works are numerous and valuable.The principal are The Statesmen of the CommoUwealth of England (1^40), Life of Goldsmith (i^/^^,greatly enlarged in 1854); The Arrest of the FiveMembers by Charles I. and Debates on the Great Re-monstrance (i860); Sir fohn Eliot (1864); Life ofWalter S

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