The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 - Periodicals |
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... French of Père Pierre Joseph d'Orleans . To which is added , Father Pereira's Journey into Tartary ; from the Dutch of Nicolaas Witsen . Translated and edited by the Earl of Ellesmere . With an Introduction by R. H. Major , Esq . A ...
... French of Père Pierre Joseph d'Orleans . To which is added , Father Pereira's Journey into Tartary ; from the Dutch of Nicolaas Witsen . Translated and edited by the Earl of Ellesmere . With an Introduction by R. H. Major , Esq . A ...
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... had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians , the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of d'Herbelot , and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's 8 Edward Gibbon .
... had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians , the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of d'Herbelot , and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's 8 Edward Gibbon .
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... French Protestant minister . After the easy income , complete independence , and unlimited credit of an English un- dergraduate , he was thrown into a foreign country , deprived , as he says , by ignorance of the language both of ...
... French Protestant minister . After the easy income , complete independence , and unlimited credit of an English un- dergraduate , he was thrown into a foreign country , deprived , as he says , by ignorance of the language both of ...
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... French library — not ill - stored in the recent publica- tions of that age — of which he allowed his pupil the continual use . It was as impossible to open any of them and not come in contact with infidelity , as to come to England and ...
... French library — not ill - stored in the recent publica- tions of that age — of which he allowed his pupil the continual use . It was as impossible to open any of them and not come in contact with infidelity , as to come to England and ...
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... French sums , and tedious theories , to which this Genevese beauty , however , devoted much of her attention . But this was in a later time : Gibbon was , it seems , her first love ; -history on Mondays , finance only on Tuesdays ...
... French sums , and tedious theories , to which this Genevese beauty , however , devoted much of her attention . But this was in a later time : Gibbon was , it seems , her first love ; -history on Mondays , finance only on Tuesdays ...
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