The Quarterly Review, Volume 220William 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, 1914 - English literature |
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... party interest , but shall be introduced and passed in each legislature without delay . As regards Britain , promises to that effect have been publicly made by a cabinet minister , Mr Herbert Samuel , both at home Vol . 220.-No. 438 . B ...
... party interest , but shall be introduced and passed in each legislature without delay . As regards Britain , promises to that effect have been publicly made by a cabinet minister , Mr Herbert Samuel , both at home Vol . 220.-No. 438 . B ...
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... parties to any joint scheme of complete naturalisation without opening their doors to a possible flood of undesirables and Asiatics , whom they would be obliged not merely to admit but to endow with political rights . Visions of ...
... parties to any joint scheme of complete naturalisation without opening their doors to a possible flood of undesirables and Asiatics , whom they would be obliged not merely to admit but to endow with political rights . Visions of ...
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... extended their influence . William King points out that the arts by which they keep up their party are to take no apprentices that will not engage to go to the meetings with them , to employ none 108 THE EVOLUTION OF THE ULSTERMAN.
... extended their influence . William King points out that the arts by which they keep up their party are to take no apprentices that will not engage to go to the meetings with them , to employ none 108 THE EVOLUTION OF THE ULSTERMAN.
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... ; Jacob Sturm had grown powerful in the town council ; the two , with Bucer , were recognised as the leaders of the reforming party , which from this time gained more and more power in the city , until Strassburg became 120 MARTIN BUCER.
... ; Jacob Sturm had grown powerful in the town council ; the two , with Bucer , were recognised as the leaders of the reforming party , which from this time gained more and more power in the city , until Strassburg became 120 MARTIN BUCER.
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... parties together . What his earliest views on the nature of the sacrament were it is hard to say . His tracts are anything but clear . He had been present at the Marburg Colloquy ( 1529 ) , and there had stood beside Zwingli , but had ...
... parties together . What his earliest views on the nature of the sacrament were it is hard to say . His tracts are anything but clear . He had been present at the Marburg Colloquy ( 1529 ) , and there had stood beside Zwingli , but had ...
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