The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William 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, 1811 - English literature |
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... admit , that the almost exclusive stress laid on it by that sagacious antiquarian , and the minuteness with which he has followed it out into its practical consequences , in some de- gree justify the pretensions urged on his behalf by ...
... admit , that the almost exclusive stress laid on it by that sagacious antiquarian , and the minuteness with which he has followed it out into its practical consequences , in some de- gree justify the pretensions urged on his behalf by ...
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... admit , may be found , in which a crown has for a long period regularly been handed from father to son . The catalogue of the kings of Judah presents us with eigh- teen kings in a direct line ; a remarkable circumstance , but , like ...
... admit , may be found , in which a crown has for a long period regularly been handed from father to son . The catalogue of the kings of Judah presents us with eigh- teen kings in a direct line ; a remarkable circumstance , but , like ...
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... admit an ex- ception to our rule , but an exception of which the principle , though not perhaps as easy of application , is yet in itself as broad and simple as that of the rule itself . The matter , however , is perfectly altered , if ...
... admit an ex- ception to our rule , but an exception of which the principle , though not perhaps as easy of application , is yet in itself as broad and simple as that of the rule itself . The matter , however , is perfectly altered , if ...
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... earlier . Thirdly and this alone should be conclusive ; -It appears a most unwarrantable assumption , that Herodotus counted ble not to admit that he has made good several 16 Clavier Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . FEB .
... earlier . Thirdly and this alone should be conclusive ; -It appears a most unwarrantable assumption , that Herodotus counted ble not to admit that he has made good several 16 Clavier Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . FEB .
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... admit that he has made good several of the positions which he has attempted to occupy . On the other side , for an ex- cellent defence , not indeed of all the peculiarities of the Newto- nian system , but of the grand principle of ...
... admit that he has made good several of the positions which he has attempted to occupy . On the other side , for an ex- cellent defence , not indeed of all the peculiarities of the Newto- nian system , but of the grand principle of ...
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