The Quarterly Review, Volumes 237-238William 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, 1922 - English literature |
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... remained a dead letter . Even now every Abyssinian , who can afford it , owns one or more slaves for his household work . Similarly , Menelik decreed a reform of the Fatha Nagast , the ancient code of law , based , according to one ...
... remained a dead letter . Even now every Abyssinian , who can afford it , owns one or more slaves for his household work . Similarly , Menelik decreed a reform of the Fatha Nagast , the ancient code of law , based , according to one ...
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... remained , plotting and waiting upon events till the winter of . 1920-1 . Then , relying on the support of the Ras of Tigre , Seyum Mangasha , the grandson of the Emperor John IV , he ventured to appear in that always turbulent district ...
... remained , plotting and waiting upon events till the winter of . 1920-1 . Then , relying on the support of the Ras of Tigre , Seyum Mangasha , the grandson of the Emperor John IV , he ventured to appear in that always turbulent district ...
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... remained there , ' Calme et paisible , Comme un poteau Inamovible , Dans son bureau , ' till he retired from it at the age of sixty , there is nothing exterior that can be added . His married existence , which was untroubled by a single ...
... remained there , ' Calme et paisible , Comme un poteau Inamovible , Dans son bureau , ' till he retired from it at the age of sixty , there is nothing exterior that can be added . His married existence , which was untroubled by a single ...
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... remained for him but a brilliant amorist . ' · In that gallant and formal carriage , expressive of an age when with the grand manner went grand manners , Henley could see little more than a strut ; and so he could make no acquaintance ...
... remained for him but a brilliant amorist . ' · In that gallant and formal carriage , expressive of an age when with the grand manner went grand manners , Henley could see little more than a strut ; and so he could make no acquaintance ...
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... remained undaunted throughout . ' Like every regimental officer , David Henderson's deepest ambition was to lead troops in the field , and he always hankered after the command of a division , which for a short time at the end of 1914 he ...
... remained undaunted throughout . ' Like every regimental officer , David Henderson's deepest ambition was to lead troops in the field , and he always hankered after the command of a division , which for a short time at the end of 1914 he ...
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