The Quarterly Review, Volume 50William 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, 1834 - English literature |
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... ideas through such com- plicated and endless mazes of language , as those with which his pages bewilder us - language too , we must add , not always drawn from the well of English undefiled . ' Many of his idioms and expressions are to ...
... ideas through such com- plicated and endless mazes of language , as those with which his pages bewilder us - language too , we must add , not always drawn from the well of English undefiled . ' Many of his idioms and expressions are to ...
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... idea of his own position on the scale of the universe , unless he look with undistracted attention above and around him , and put forth all the energies of his intellect , with a view to explore the vast scheme of existence of which he ...
... idea of his own position on the scale of the universe , unless he look with undistracted attention above and around him , and put forth all the energies of his intellect , with a view to explore the vast scheme of existence of which he ...
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... idea to the rank of the cockle - shell , which the retiring wave leaves behind it on the shore . The man , however , who permits his conduct to be affected by either of these opposite impressions , must be a stranger to reflection , or ...
... idea to the rank of the cockle - shell , which the retiring wave leaves behind it on the shore . The man , however , who permits his conduct to be affected by either of these opposite impressions , must be a stranger to reflection , or ...
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... idea leads us to conclude that the stars , which are separated from each other by distances at least as great as that of Uranus from our sun - that is to say , some eighteen hundred millions of miles - have also their respec- tive ...
... idea leads us to conclude that the stars , which are separated from each other by distances at least as great as that of Uranus from our sun - that is to say , some eighteen hundred millions of miles - have also their respec- tive ...
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... to have been made nearly about the same time by Palitzch , a farmer of Prolitz near Dresden a peasant by station , an astronomer by nature and his idea is now generally adopted by astronomers , The Universe and its Author .
... to have been made nearly about the same time by Palitzch , a farmer of Prolitz near Dresden a peasant by station , an astronomer by nature and his idea is now generally adopted by astronomers , The Universe and its Author .
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