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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... manner , to say the least of it , imperfect and inconse- quential . The sum set apart for the attainment of the objects which the deceased Earl had in contemplation was eight thousand pounds sterling , which , together with the ...
... manner , to say the least of it , imperfect and inconse- quential . The sum set apart for the attainment of the objects which the deceased Earl had in contemplation was eight thousand pounds sterling , which , together with the ...
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... manner in which he came into the possession of it will not , perhaps , be deemed perfectly legitimate . That able divine was requested to point out the adaptation of external nature to man's intellectual and moral constitution . This ...
... manner in which he came into the possession of it will not , perhaps , be deemed perfectly legitimate . That able divine was requested to point out the adaptation of external nature to man's intellectual and moral constitution . This ...
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... manner in which the other volumes , whose titles we have prefixed to this article , are executed , we may speak in more agree- able terms . With the exception of the fault of repetition , for which the authors are not fairly to be ...
... manner in which the other volumes , whose titles we have prefixed to this article , are executed , we may speak in more agree- able terms . With the exception of the fault of repetition , for which the authors are not fairly to be ...
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... manner , that he could cover our entire system with a spider's thread . He would set down the sun in his map as a fixed star ; but to his eye it would present no variation , as the largest of our planets would not intercept much more ...
... manner , that he could cover our entire system with a spider's thread . He would set down the sun in his map as a fixed star ; but to his eye it would present no variation , as the largest of our planets would not intercept much more ...
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... manner enabled to com- prehend the existence of myriads of peopled worlds besides our own , and to glance to the future and the past with more than the speed of light itself , must be the creation of some superior Spirit dwelling in ...
... manner enabled to com- prehend the existence of myriads of peopled worlds besides our own , and to glance to the future and the past with more than the speed of light itself , must be the creation of some superior Spirit dwelling in ...
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