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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... considered as directly of a learned nature . Yet this remark , as even our present number will sufficiently evince , is not without exceptions ; and certainly , a very respectable one now lies before us . The classical acquirements of M ...
... considered as directly of a learned nature . Yet this remark , as even our present number will sufficiently evince , is not without exceptions ; and certainly , a very respectable one now lies before us . The classical acquirements of M ...
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... considered as constituting him the founder of a new chronological school . To those who may be unacquainted with the principle of genea logical synchronisms , a single example of the manner in which it is actually applied , will ...
... considered as constituting him the founder of a new chronological school . To those who may be unacquainted with the principle of genea logical synchronisms , a single example of the manner in which it is actually applied , will ...
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... considered as a much - improved edition of that of Freret , improved , not only by enlargement , we mean as to the history of Greece , but also by emendation . The system , however , may be examined with advantage even by those who view ...
... considered as a much - improved edition of that of Freret , improved , not only by enlargement , we mean as to the history of Greece , but also by emendation . The system , however , may be examined with advantage even by those who view ...
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... considered as nearly parallel with that of the Spartan kings of the race of Eurysthenes , of whom sixteen , as we are told , reigned in a direct line . Each case is uncommon , though neither reaches the point of positive improbability ...
... considered as nearly parallel with that of the Spartan kings of the race of Eurysthenes , of whom sixteen , as we are told , reigned in a direct line . Each case is uncommon , though neither reaches the point of positive improbability ...
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... considered ; but some other branches of the subject , he treats with equal fairness and good sense . We would especially instance his reasonings concerning the age of Ho- mer ; which , with one exception too trifling to be specified ...
... considered ; but some other branches of the subject , he treats with equal fairness and good sense . We would especially instance his reasonings concerning the age of Ho- mer ; which , with one exception too trifling to be specified ...
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