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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... importance , that the re- vival of it may well entitle Freret to the appellation of the father of historic criticism . Considerably more is comprehended under this title than it probably was intended to convey ; nor , indeed , is there ...
... importance , that the re- vival of it may well entitle Freret to the appellation of the father of historic criticism . Considerably more is comprehended under this title than it probably was intended to convey ; nor , indeed , is there ...
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... important respects at least , he may claim the praise of originality . Freret , discussing the general subject of ancient chronology , did not , in regard to the particular case of Greece , develope his system with perfect fulness of ...
... important respects at least , he may claim the praise of originality . Freret , discussing the general subject of ancient chronology , did not , in regard to the particular case of Greece , develope his system with perfect fulness of ...
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... importance of some of the subjects which the chronological department of the present article has suggested to our considera- tion , may , we hope apologize for our having been so long detain- ed in that obscure sojourn . ' We now hasten ...
... importance of some of the subjects which the chronological department of the present article has suggested to our considera- tion , may , we hope apologize for our having been so long detain- ed in that obscure sojourn . ' We now hasten ...
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... important principles of domestic , polity and municipal law , we certainly were not so unreasonable as to expect a full and free discussion from a Frenchman writing in Paris , at the beginning of the nineteenth century , even though ...
... important principles of domestic , polity and municipal law , we certainly were not so unreasonable as to expect a full and free discussion from a Frenchman writing in Paris , at the beginning of the nineteenth century , even though ...
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... importance , we will not enlarge on it . The legislation of Solon he treats very concisely , and his reviewers may therefore be excused from touching on it at all . There is , however , a view of M. Clavier's work , which we have not ...
... importance , we will not enlarge on it . The legislation of Solon he treats very concisely , and his reviewers may therefore be excused from touching on it at all . There is , however , a view of M. Clavier's work , which we have not ...
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