The Quarterly Review, Volume 216William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1912 - English literature |
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... Whigs . The Whig party had , indeed , as Mr Holland points out , ceased to exist some years earlier . It lasted almost exactly two centuries , from the Revolution of 1688 to the Liberal Unionist acceptance of office in the Conservative ...
... Whigs . The Whig party had , indeed , as Mr Holland points out , ceased to exist some years earlier . It lasted almost exactly two centuries , from the Revolution of 1688 to the Liberal Unionist acceptance of office in the Conservative ...
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... Whigs . And no one illustrated them more exactly than their last and , perhaps , most honourable exponent , Spencer ... Whig than Mr Holland . His previous books had made that clear ; but the fact is placed beyond a doubt by his ...
... Whigs . And no one illustrated them more exactly than their last and , perhaps , most honourable exponent , Spencer ... Whig than Mr Holland . His previous books had made that clear ; but the fact is placed beyond a doubt by his ...
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... Whig doubts about a workable plan of Tariff Reform . Mr Holland is even occasionally inaccurate in detail . For instance , the Duke was never President of The Unionist Free Trade League . ' That body was founded by Sir Michael Hicks ...
... Whig doubts about a workable plan of Tariff Reform . Mr Holland is even occasionally inaccurate in detail . For instance , the Duke was never President of The Unionist Free Trade League . ' That body was founded by Sir Michael Hicks ...
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... Whig , nor an aristocrat , nor a sportsman . was a man of the middle class , a man of business who happened also to be a man of books . The Duke of Devon- shire presided at one time over the Education Depart- ment and was Chancellor of ...
... Whig , nor an aristocrat , nor a sportsman . was a man of the middle class , a man of business who happened also to be a man of books . The Duke of Devon- shire presided at one time over the Education Depart- ment and was Chancellor of ...
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... Whig blood and an inherited aptitude for the compromises necessary to common political action , was sure not to move so quickly . No one is so conscious of his ancestors as a Whig aristocrat ; no one thinks so little about them as a man ...
... Whig blood and an inherited aptitude for the compromises necessary to common political action , was sure not to move so quickly . No one is so conscious of his ancestors as a Whig aristocrat ; no one thinks so little about them as a man ...
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Page 93 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself...
Page 455 - Inclosures at that time began to be more frequent, whereby arable land, which could not be manured without people and families, was turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herdsmen ; and tenances for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes.
Page 354 - Right under the pump-room windows is the King's Bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or the heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another...
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Page 347 - This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length.
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Page 471 - I saw that Reformation principles were powerless to rescue her. As to leaving her, the thought never crossed my imagination ; still I ever kept before me that there was something greater than the Established Church, and that that was the Church Catholic and Apostolic, set up from the beginning, of which she was but the local presence and the organ. She was nothing, unless she was this. She must be dealt with strongly, or she would be lost. There was need of a second reformation.
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