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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... common rule of succession , that it probably would be a task of some little labour to discover six other such exceptions to it , at whatever dis- tance from each other , throughout the whole extent of 1811. Clavier - Histoire des ...
... common rule of succession , that it probably would be a task of some little labour to discover six other such exceptions to it , at whatever dis- tance from each other , throughout the whole extent of 1811. Clavier - Histoire des ...
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... common chronology . The single direct authority for the date vulgarly assigned , is , we believe , a passage in Pausanias , the verbal correctness of which as delivered down to us , Mr. Mitford disputes ; and , even if the passage be ...
... common chronology . The single direct authority for the date vulgarly assigned , is , we believe , a passage in Pausanias , the verbal correctness of which as delivered down to us , Mr. Mitford disputes ; and , even if the passage be ...
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... common stem who may have died off without issue . On this ac- count , in computing it chronologically , we may safely allow three successive names to a century and if , therefore , thus computed , it is found to harmonise with any ...
... common stem who may have died off without issue . On this ac- count , in computing it chronologically , we may safely allow three successive names to a century and if , therefore , thus computed , it is found to harmonise with any ...
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... common - place of the republicans at Paris . Nothing was to be heard from the most unclassical throats of the Massacrers and Septembrizers , ' but classical rav- ings about Brutus and Thrasybulus : and the Vergniauds and Bris- sots ...
... common - place of the republicans at Paris . Nothing was to be heard from the most unclassical throats of the Massacrers and Septembrizers , ' but classical rav- ings about Brutus and Thrasybulus : and the Vergniauds and Bris- sots ...
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... common rules , which should at once apply to the Iliad and Paradise Lost ; but whoever will fairly take a view of the subject , must be satisfied that although the talents of the two authors did in many material points resemble each ...
... common rules , which should at once apply to the Iliad and Paradise Lost ; but whoever will fairly take a view of the subject , must be satisfied that although the talents of the two authors did in many material points resemble each ...
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