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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... doubt that the principle in question had been partially em- ployed by modern chronologers antecedently to the time of Freret ; but we notwithstanding admit , that the almost exclusive stress laid on it by that sagacious antiquarian ...
... doubt that the principle in question had been partially em- ployed by modern chronologers antecedently to the time of Freret ; but we notwithstanding admit , that the almost exclusive stress laid on it by that sagacious antiquarian ...
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... doubts on the sub- ject , we shall no longer particularly keep in view the distinction between the chronology of Usher and that of M. Clavier ; for , though that distinction amounts to little less than the interval of a century , yet ...
... doubts on the sub- ject , we shall no longer particularly keep in view the distinction between the chronology of Usher and that of M. Clavier ; for , though that distinction amounts to little less than the interval of a century , yet ...
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... doubt that he considers it as conclusive . The argument in question seems built on what is nearly a tru ism ; for it may readily be conceded , that , so far as any given regal succession has proceeded in the direct line , so far ...
... doubt that he considers it as conclusive . The argument in question seems built on what is nearly a tru ism ; for it may readily be conceded , that , so far as any given regal succession has proceeded in the direct line , so far ...
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... doubt not , agree with us in thinking that the blunder of Newton was precisely as great in the one case as in the other , that is , was precisely none at all , - Nor is it Homer nods , but we that dream . VOL . V. NO . IX . 3 there are ...
... doubt not , agree with us in thinking that the blunder of Newton was precisely as great in the one case as in the other , that is , was precisely none at all , - Nor is it Homer nods , but we that dream . VOL . V. NO . IX . 3 there are ...
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... doubt that M. Clavier's promised translation of Pausanias will prove a performance of merit , we are apprehensive of his making somewhat too free with the text of his author . The alteration of a word in Pausanias , which he proposes in ...
... doubt that M. Clavier's promised translation of Pausanias will prove a performance of merit , we are apprehensive of his making somewhat too free with the text of his author . The alteration of a word in Pausanias , which he proposes in ...
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