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 8
... object to some of the data from which this cor- rected 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 ...
... object to some of the data from which this cor- rected 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 ...
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... object of it usually is to trace the filia- tion of some living person , will simply recount the steps of his lineage from father to son , without noticing those branches of the ' common stem who may have died off without issue . On ...
... object of it usually is to trace the filia- tion of some living person , will simply recount the steps of his lineage from father to son , without noticing those branches of the ' common stem who may have died off without issue . On ...
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... object of the expeditions in question was to remedy the excess of population , although the event of them was unquestionably such as would have proved a very effectual remedy for that evil . Still less does it appear proved that the ...
... object of the expeditions in question was to remedy the excess of population , although the event of them was unquestionably such as would have proved a very effectual remedy for that evil . Still less does it appear proved that the ...
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... object the remainder of our critique . Fifteen or twenty years ago , the democratical republics of the an- cient world formed the favourite common - place of the republicans at Paris . Nothing was to be heard from the most unclassical ...
... object the remainder of our critique . Fifteen or twenty years ago , the democratical republics of the an- cient world formed the favourite common - place of the republicans at Paris . Nothing was to be heard from the most unclassical ...
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... object of it is a villain , must tend to prejudice this author on the same side . Still it is not the less curious to remark the effect of his prejudices struggling with an evidently honest purpose of exe- cuting his task faithfully ...
... object of it is a villain , must tend to prejudice this author on the same side . Still it is not the less curious to remark the effect of his prejudices struggling with an evidently honest purpose of exe- cuting his task faithfully ...
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