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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... less decidedly dull and oppressive . Addressing ourselves , then , in the first instance , to the former task , we here bid adieu , for a short interval , to all our idler , lighter , and fairer readers , intreating them to wind round ...
... less decidedly dull and oppressive . Addressing ourselves , then , in the first instance , to the former task , we here bid adieu , for a short interval , to all our idler , lighter , and fairer readers , intreating them to wind round ...
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... less than the interval of a century , yet the chronology of Newton ( we are , of course , speaking of his profane chronology , ) is distant from both the former by con- siderably more than three times the same interval . Besides this ...
... less than the interval of a century , yet the chronology of Newton ( we are , of course , speaking of his profane chronology , ) is distant from both the former by con- siderably more than three times the same interval . Besides this ...
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... less by 10 or 15. Suppose that some modern writer should , in the course of a discussion on some other subject , observe that North America was discovered 300 years ago , would it not be mere perverseness to inform him that his ...
... less by 10 or 15. Suppose that some modern writer should , in the course of a discussion on some other subject , observe that North America was discovered 300 years ago , would it not be mere perverseness to inform him that his ...
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... less variety , than in those of any other ancient work extant ; it cer- tainly is thought allowable for commentators to select such as they may best approve . At the same time , all conjectural emendation of the sacred text is strictly ...
... less variety , than in those of any other ancient work extant ; it cer- tainly is thought allowable for commentators to select such as they may best approve . At the same time , all conjectural emendation of the sacred text is strictly ...
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... less does it appear proved that the previous condition of Greece was that of a considerably civilized and peaceable community of states , although , that the Trojan war operated as a strong check on civi- lization , we have already ...
... less does it appear proved that the previous condition of Greece was that of a considerably civilized and peaceable community of states , although , that the Trojan war operated as a strong check on civi- lization , we have already ...
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