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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... immediately conversant with the foundations of government , it is impossible that a government which has no other foundation than force , should , under any circumstances , be propitious ; but , beyond this point , despotism appears to ...
... immediately conversant with the foundations of government , it is impossible that a government which has no other foundation than force , should , under any circumstances , be propitious ; but , beyond this point , despotism appears to ...
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... Immediately after that æra , we find , in the race of Eurysthenes , Cleomenes succeeded by his half - brother Leonidas ; Plistarchus , the son of Leonidas , succeeded by his cou- sin Plistoanax ; and , in three generations more ...
... Immediately after that æra , we find , in the race of Eurysthenes , Cleomenes succeeded by his half - brother Leonidas ; Plistarchus , the son of Leonidas , succeeded by his cou- sin Plistoanax ; and , in three generations more ...
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... immediately feel the pressure of an excessive population , it is an almost intolerable burden , and will be endured only when the necessity is of the clearest and most cogent nature . To this situation , that of a barbarian community ...
... immediately feel the pressure of an excessive population , it is an almost intolerable burden , and will be endured only when the necessity is of the clearest and most cogent nature . To this situation , that of a barbarian community ...
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... immediately after the expulsion of the Pisistratida , the author once more reverts to the object which we have been considering . As he began with Charlemagne , so he concludes with Pisistratus . Herodotus having asserted that the ...
... immediately after the expulsion of the Pisistratida , the author once more reverts to the object which we have been considering . As he began with Charlemagne , so he concludes with Pisistratus . Herodotus having asserted that the ...
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... immediately sprang from his horse , exclaiming to the Cossaques , " Let those -who are base enough , abandon their Attaman . " The corrected lines paused . He gradually moved , and with a waving hand kept back those who had trespassed ...
... immediately sprang from his horse , exclaiming to the Cossaques , " Let those -who are base enough , abandon their Attaman . " The corrected lines paused . He gradually moved , and with a waving hand kept back those who had trespassed ...
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