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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... circumstances , be propitious ; but , beyond this point , despotism 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 ...
... circumstances , be propitious ; but , beyond this point , despotism 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 ...
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... circumstance , but , like other remarkable circumstances , capable of being substantiated by testimony . In this instance , indeed , it is farther worthy of obser- vation , that early marriages and violent deaths reduced the average ...
... circumstance , but , like other remarkable circumstances , capable of being substantiated by testimony . In this instance , indeed , it is farther worthy of obser- vation , that early marriages and violent deaths reduced the average ...
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... circumstance of a long succession of sovereigns , proceeding according to the course of li- neal descent , as in itself it is remarkable , so is rendered considera- bly improbable , when asserted of two coincident royal races like those ...
... circumstance of a long succession of sovereigns , proceeding according to the course of li- neal descent , as in itself it is remarkable , so is rendered considera- bly improbable , when asserted of two coincident royal races like those ...
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... 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. Clavier , we shall only remark , that the fact , even if admitted ...
... 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. Clavier , we shall only remark , that the fact , even if admitted ...
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... circumstances of the case , some reason for deviating from all established canons of computation , some new calculus , confessed- ly neither sauctioned by experience , nor prescribed by unerring authority . It was comparatively little ...
... circumstances of the case , some reason for deviating from all established canons of computation , some new calculus , confessed- ly neither sauctioned by experience , nor prescribed by unerring authority . It was comparatively little ...
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