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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... effect , a great part of the volumes before us bears the appearance , rather of a chronological or archæological essay , than of a history . On such a foundation , it would be impossible for us to raise an agreeable or interesting ...
... effect , a great part of the volumes before us bears the appearance , rather of a chronological or archæological essay , than of a history . On such a foundation , it would be impossible for us to raise an agreeable or interesting ...
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... effect , as far as it extended , must counteract the former.ne Next , it is contended that some long minorities actually occur in the history of the Spartan kings ; on which it may be enough to observe , that the general rule furnished ...
... effect , as far as it extended , must counteract the former.ne Next , it is contended that some long minorities actually occur in the history of the Spartan kings ; on which it may be enough to observe , that the general rule furnished ...
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... effect , as Freret himself ; and , even where his uncommon erudition and ad- dress fail to produce conviction , they still cannot but excite admi- ration and pleasure . Perhaps , however , the English scholar may find a readier access ...
... effect , as Freret himself ; and , even where his uncommon erudition and ad- dress fail to produce conviction , they still cannot but excite admi- ration and pleasure . Perhaps , however , the English scholar may find a readier access ...
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... effect of this singular frame of laws must be traced that martial spirit and hardi- hood , which rendered the Spartan people so capacious of empire ; but farther that the ascendency with which the legislator virtually endowed the ...
... effect of this singular frame of laws must be traced that martial spirit and hardi- hood , which rendered the Spartan people so capacious of empire ; but farther that the ascendency with which the legislator virtually endowed the ...
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... effect has been as- sisted by the operation of motives somewhat more pressing than the recollection of the past . We cannot forget how much out of his element the genius of Greek and Roman liberty must find himself - ad prætoria regis ...
... effect has been as- sisted by the operation of motives somewhat more pressing than the recollection of the past . We cannot forget how much out of his element the genius of Greek and Roman liberty must find himself - ad prætoria regis ...
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