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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... appears to have no direct interest in pushing the principle of exclusion . It is indeed true that almost every species and degree of mental cultivation must , in some mea- sure , tend to promote the growth of a spirit of liberty ; but ...
... appears to have no direct interest in pushing the principle of exclusion . It is indeed true that almost every species and degree of mental cultivation must , in some mea- sure , tend to promote the growth of a spirit of liberty ; but ...
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... appears from the sacred books that , at a period anterior to that of David by at least one or two generations , and it seems probable that at a still earlier period , the ordinary duration of human life had subsided to its present level ...
... appears from the sacred books that , at a period anterior to that of David by at least one or two generations , and it seems probable that at a still earlier period , the ordinary duration of human life had subsided to its present level ...
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... appears to me that He- siod and Homer , who first instructed the Greeks on these points , flourished four hundred years before my time , and no more . • Ἡσίοδον γὰρ καὶ Όμηρον ἡλικίην τετρακοσίοισι ἔτεσι δοκέω μεν πρεσβυτέρους γενέσθαι ...
... appears to me that He- siod and Homer , who first instructed the Greeks on these points , flourished four hundred years before my time , and no more . • Ἡσίοδον γὰρ καὶ Όμηρον ἡλικίην τετρακοσίοισι ἔτεσι δοκέω μεν πρεσβυτέρους γενέσθαι ...
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... appears to us that the republic of letters has been much less than just to the Newtonian system of chronology ; a system which , though in no view comparable to some other pro- ductions from the same hand , would yet have immortalized ...
... appears to us that the republic of letters has been much less than just to the Newtonian system of chronology ; a system which , though in no view comparable to some other pro- ductions from the same hand , would yet have immortalized ...
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... appears , in fact , only like an aggravated edition of the immediate operation of the crusades on the state of ... appear proved , that the object of the expeditions in question was to remedy the excess of population , although the event ...
... appears , in fact , only like an aggravated edition of the immediate operation of the crusades on the state of ... appear proved , that the object of the expeditions in question was to remedy the excess of population , although the event ...
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