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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... course of proceeding may conveniently serve , in the first instance at least , to divert a considerable portion of the intelligence of his subjects from political inquiries ; partly as it may place him in a popular and engaging point of ...
... course of proceeding may conveniently serve , in the first instance at least , to divert a considerable portion of the intelligence of his subjects from political inquiries ; partly as it may place him in a popular and engaging point of ...
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... course of the more distin- guished families who appear in that history . It is apparently with allusion to its uses in this respect , that the book is , somewhat magnificently , announced in the title - page as designed for an intro ...
... course of the more distin- guished families who appear in that history . It is apparently with allusion to its uses in this respect , that the book is , somewhat magnificently , announced in the title - page as designed for an intro ...
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... course , speaking of his profane chronology , ) is distant from both the former by con- siderably more than three times the same interval . Besides this , the system of M. Clavier is liable , and in an aggravated degree , to some of the ...
... course , speaking of his profane chronology , ) is distant from both the former by con- siderably more than three times the same interval . Besides this , the system of M. Clavier is liable , and in an aggravated degree , to some of the ...
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... course of lineal descent ; and the law of lineal descent enjoins the allowance of three genera- tions to a century . To the royal genealogies just enumerated , the limits of both our subject and our space induce us to confine our ...
... course of lineal descent ; and the law of lineal descent enjoins the allowance of three genera- tions to a century . To the royal genealogies just enumerated , the limits of both our subject and our space induce us to confine our ...
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... course , are , in a long series of reigns , very probable occur- rences , and , when the question is respecting several concurrent mo- narchies , occurrencies morally certain . A succession of reigns , therefore , does not , on an ...
... course , are , in a long series of reigns , very probable occur- rences , and , when the question is respecting several concurrent mo- narchies , occurrencies morally certain . A succession of reigns , therefore , does not , on an ...
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