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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Page 13
... increase the chance of long mino- rities , yet it would in nearly the same degree tend to increase the chance of the sovereign's dying before he had any issue at all , that is , the chance of the introduction of the collateral line ...
... increase the chance of long mino- rities , yet it would in nearly the same degree tend to increase the chance of the sovereign's dying before he had any issue at all , that is , the chance of the introduction of the collateral line ...
Page 27
... increase of their own numbers . Secondly , in such a community , the remedy is scarcely a less grievance than the disease . The settled habits of civilized life bind men to a local residence with infinitely stronger ligaments than can ...
... increase of their own numbers . Secondly , in such a community , the remedy is scarcely a less grievance than the disease . The settled habits of civilized life bind men to a local residence with infinitely stronger ligaments than can ...
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... increase our interest nor admiration . From the gods she could derive but little assistance ; for till the final incident of the poem takes place , the victrix causa seems to be that of their enemy . Heaven itself stands in need of ...
... increase our interest nor admiration . From the gods she could derive but little assistance ; for till the final incident of the poem takes place , the victrix causa seems to be that of their enemy . Heaven itself stands in need of ...
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... increased . But the experience of all his- tory teaches us , that the connections which such marriages form be ... increasing anxiety to the recovery of those portions of her territory which have been wrested from her , and which , from ...
... increased . But the experience of all his- tory teaches us , that the connections which such marriages form be ... increasing anxiety to the recovery of those portions of her territory which have been wrested from her , and which , from ...
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... increasing : he 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 ...
... increasing : he 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 ...
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