The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 - English literature |
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... human beings from Japetus inclusive , we are not a little asto- nished at recognizing , in the fourth step , our old acquaintance the volatile Mercury ; and that , after a similar descent , of no fewer than fourteen stages from Inachus ...
... human beings from Japetus inclusive , we are not a little asto- nished at recognizing , in the fourth step , our old acquaintance the volatile Mercury ; and that , after a similar descent , of no fewer than fourteen stages from Inachus ...
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... human life had subsided to its present level . It still remains , then , to be explained , why the chronology of the regal lines below the Trojan war should not be reduced according to the modern standard . And it is observable , that ...
... human life had subsided to its present level . It still remains , then , to be explained , why the chronology of the regal lines below the Trojan war should not be reduced according to the modern standard . And it is observable , that ...
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... human life was formerly far greater than at present , we qualify , with respect to the more ancient fables , the chronological calculus furnished by modern experience , here doubtless we admit an ex- ception to our rule , but an ...
... human life was formerly far greater than at present , we qualify , with respect to the more ancient fables , the chronological calculus furnished by modern experience , here doubtless we admit an ex- ception to our rule , but an ...
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... human life and happiness , his cruel contempt for the independence of nations , -we must be to- lerated in a considerable degree of scepticism respecting his claims to the dignity of the grand pacificator and civilizer of the western ...
... human life and happiness , his cruel contempt for the independence of nations , -we must be to- lerated in a considerable degree of scepticism respecting his claims to the dignity of the grand pacificator and civilizer of the western ...
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... humanity than unhappily it has proved on some later occasions , reduced the conqueror to limits consistent with the safety of his neighbours . This story surely requires no comment ; but we cannot help adding , that the censure with ...
... humanity than unhappily it has proved on some later occasions , reduced the conqueror to limits consistent with the safety of his neighbours . This story surely requires no comment ; but we cannot help adding , that the censure with ...
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