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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... allowed ; but it is , to make the most of it , not very forcible , since the charge against those authors is that of in- consistency , not with themselves , but with experience . In addition to the grand argument already noticed , some ...
... allowed ; but it is , to make the most of it , not very forcible , since the charge against those authors is that of in- consistency , not with themselves , but with experience . In addition to the grand argument already noticed , some ...
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... allowed to marry young , probably not till the of thirty - seven ; a circumstance which would of course tend to increase the chance of long minorities . With respect to this allegation , as it is disallowed , and we think justly , by M ...
... allowed to marry young , probably not till the of thirty - seven ; a circumstance which would of course tend to increase the chance of long minorities . With respect to this allegation , as it is disallowed , and we think justly , by M ...
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... allowed himself to employ respecting the chronological speculations of that gifted genius , and while we are persuaded that his severity is , in not a few instances , misplaced , and capable of being retorted , it is impossi * It would ...
... allowed himself to employ respecting the chronological speculations of that gifted genius , and while we are persuaded that his severity is , in not a few instances , misplaced , and capable of being retorted , it is impossi * It would ...
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... allowed , perhaps , to question a part of these pretensions , on condition of our full acquiescence in the rest . We are , then firmly persuaded that Charlemagne , by force of arms , subjugated a great part of Europe ; that his ...
... allowed , perhaps , to question a part of these pretensions , on condition of our full acquiescence in the rest . We are , then firmly persuaded that Charlemagne , by force of arms , subjugated a great part of Europe ; that his ...
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... allowed him by the Lacedemonians , then deeply occupied in other quarters , to extend his dominion over almost the whole of the Peloponnesus . Proposing to himself , for a model , his re- nowned ancestor and predecessor Hercules , ( the ...
... allowed him by the Lacedemonians , then deeply occupied in other quarters , to extend his dominion over almost the whole of the Peloponnesus . Proposing to himself , for a model , his re- nowned ancestor and predecessor Hercules , ( the ...
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