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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... respects the two coun- tries may both be compared and contrasted with each other . Their original establishment , for instance , was pretty nearly modelled on the same plan . The sarcastic remark of a keen , but coarse and profligate ...
... respects the two coun- tries may both be compared and contrasted with each other . Their original establishment , for instance , was pretty nearly modelled on the same plan . The sarcastic remark of a keen , but coarse and profligate ...
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... respect- able station in society . He soon discovered , however , that the countenance of the governor was not enough to overwhelm oppo- sition to his benevolent intention , and that authority was unable to enforce what a mere ...
... respect- able station in society . He soon discovered , however , that the countenance of the governor was not enough to overwhelm oppo- sition to his benevolent intention , and that authority was unable to enforce what a mere ...
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... respect- ability , without the assistance of great capital . years We have individuals in New South Wales , who , some fifteen ago , were driving government dung - carts , and shuffling along with hods of mortar on their shoulders , now ...
... respect- ability , without the assistance of great capital . years We have individuals in New South Wales , who , some fifteen ago , were driving government dung - carts , and shuffling along with hods of mortar on their shoulders , now ...
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... respecting the soils and productions ; but in these details we find nothing that is new ; and , in fact , much of the geographical part , for want of a chart , is in a great degree unintelligible . unintelligible . This defect , which ...
... respecting the soils and productions ; but in these details we find nothing that is new ; and , in fact , much of the geographical part , for want of a chart , is in a great degree unintelligible . unintelligible . This defect , which ...
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... respect for a Zeno . But who ever fancied that Marcus employed no men of letters in the administration of the empire , but those of his own sect ? -or gravely doubted that so wise a prince might be willing to avail himself of talents ...
... respect for a Zeno . But who ever fancied that Marcus employed no men of letters in the administration of the empire , but those of his own sect ? -or gravely doubted that so wise a prince might be willing to avail himself of talents ...
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