The Quarterly Review, Volume 37William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1828 - English literature |
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... observation which he obviously possesses , it would have been difficult for Mr. Cunningham to produce any other than an amusing and instructive book . We do not pretend to say that the perusal of his performance has added much to the ...
... observation which he obviously possesses , it would have been difficult for Mr. Cunningham to produce any other than an amusing and instructive book . We do not pretend to say that the perusal of his performance has added much to the ...
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... observe that , if Mr. Cunningham had been as well acquainted with the British possessions in North America as he is with those in New South Wales , he would have known that , instead of a thousand miles from the sea , better land than ...
... observe that , if Mr. Cunningham had been as well acquainted with the British possessions in North America as he is with those in New South Wales , he would have known that , instead of a thousand miles from the sea , better land than ...
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... observed that sterling is generally at a discount before the winding up of the set - to . ' So unfortunate has the facetious pay- master been in the discriminative nomenclature which he has handed down as characteristic of the two ...
... observed that sterling is generally at a discount before the winding up of the set - to . ' So unfortunate has the facetious pay- master been in the discriminative nomenclature which he has handed down as characteristic of the two ...
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... observed , from the above return , that the disproportion of the male to the female population is enormous , being fifteen to one nearly among the convicts , and in the total population three to one . This is unquestionably a great evil ...
... observed , from the above return , that the disproportion of the male to the female population is enormous , being fifteen to one nearly among the convicts , and in the total population three to one . This is unquestionably a great evil ...
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... observations of Mr. Cunningham : - When it is recollected what bitter dissensions have existed for many years between the emigrants and emancipists , and that the latter would compose at least four - fifths of the electors , it is ...
... observations of Mr. Cunningham : - When it is recollected what bitter dissensions have existed for many years between the emigrants and emancipists , and that the latter would compose at least four - fifths of the electors , it is ...
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