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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... expression is derived . The causes of the difference , in point of duration , between reigns and descents , must be sufficiently obvious . A monarch dies with- out issue , and is succeeded by his brother ; in which case , though there ...
... expression is derived . The causes of the difference , in point of duration , between reigns and descents , must be sufficiently obvious . A monarch dies with- out issue , and is succeeded by his brother ; in which case , though there ...
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... expression which he uses , and the context , leave abundant scope for the subtraction which the Newtonian chronology requires . In the preceding sentence , the historian remarks that the knowledge of the theogony , and of the forms and ...
... expression which he uses , and the context , leave abundant scope for the subtraction which the Newtonian chronology requires . In the preceding sentence , the historian remarks that the knowledge of the theogony , and of the forms and ...
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... expression of a just and liberal sentiment by that un- fortunate necessity which has chained up liberty of speech through- out France . In explanation of the dearth of historical records among the Asiatic nations , he observes , that ...
... expression of a just and liberal sentiment by that un- fortunate necessity which has chained up liberty of speech through- out France . In explanation of the dearth of historical records among the Asiatic nations , he observes , that ...
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... expression , descriptive of character , which Herodotus applies to this person , is , that he was the most domineering man of all the Greeks of his time ; * clearly alluding to his foreign , not to his domestic policy ; nor is there one ...
... expression , descriptive of character , which Herodotus applies to this person , is , that he was the most domineering man of all the Greeks of his time ; * clearly alluding to his foreign , not to his domestic policy ; nor is there one ...
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... expression appear intelligible . ' We must candidly confess that , to us , this comment on the expression appears considerably less intelligible than the text ; but , so far as we comprehend it , it seems intended to convey that ...
... expression appear intelligible . ' We must candidly confess that , to us , this comment on the expression appears considerably less intelligible than the text ; but , so far as we comprehend it , it seems intended to convey that ...
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