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The Lusitanian [ed. by W.H.G. Kingston]. - Page 72
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The Portfolio, Volume 1

David Urquhart - Great Britain - 1836 - 562 pages
...the machinery has been raised, or the costume assumed by the performers has been laid aside. Here we have the full revelation of events in progress —...deepest import not understood before — and the full developement of vast projects of conquest and dominion, which, but to have suspected, was to have merited...
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The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 16

John George Cochrane - 1836 - 582 pages
...will contain Dispatch from Count Fozzo di Borgo. A Letter from the Emperor Nicholas, &c. &c. " Here we have the full revelation of events in progress —...deepest import not understood before, and the full development of vust projects of conquest and dominion which, but to have suspected, was to have merited...
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The Portfolio, Or, a Collection of State Papers: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Political science - 1836 - 544 pages
...the machinery has been raised, or the costume assumed by the performers has been laid aside. Here we have the full revelation of events in progress —...deepest import not understood before — and the full developement of vast projects of conquest and dominion, which, but to have suspected, was to have merited...
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The Portfolio; Or, a Collection of State Papers, Etc: Illustrative ..., Volume 1

David Urquhart - Europe - 1836 - 552 pages
...the machinery has been raised, or the costume assumed by the performers has been laid aside. Here we have the full revelation of events in progress —...deepest import not understood before — . and the full developement of vast projects of conquest and dominion, which, but to have suspected, was to have merited...
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The Portfolio; or A collection of state papers, etc. etc ..., Volume 1

Portfolio - 1836 - 542 pages
...aside. Here we have the full revelation of events in progress—of objects yet in prospect only—the interpretation of facts of the deepest import not understood before— and the full developement of vast projects of conquest and dominion which, but to have suspected, was to have merited...
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