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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... 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 this ac- count , in computing it chronologically , we may safely ...
... 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 this ac- count , in computing it chronologically , we may safely ...
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... person , ecclesiastic , civil , or judicial , may repeat the same operation toties quoties ; nor , because biblical authority will not positively bear us out in fixing the epoch of the deluge within a few centuries , is this any ...
... person , ecclesiastic , civil , or judicial , may repeat the same operation toties quoties ; nor , because biblical authority will not positively bear us out in fixing the epoch of the deluge within a few centuries , is this any ...
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... person once lived , cut an immense number of throats , and then died , but he must believe in the greatness and glory of Charle- magne as a benefactor , and , as it were , renovator of the modern world ; must believe in his mission ...
... person once lived , cut an immense number of throats , and then died , but he must believe in the greatness and glory of Charle- magne as a benefactor , and , as it were , renovator of the modern world ; must believe in his mission ...
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... persons whom the Greeks designated by the appellation of tyrants or usurpers , and of whom the early annals of the Grecian repub- lics commemorate not a few . It is remarkable that the very same disposition , though in a somewhat less ...
... persons whom the Greeks designated by the appellation of tyrants or usurpers , and of whom the early annals of the Grecian repub- lics commemorate not a few . It is remarkable that the very same disposition , though in a somewhat less ...
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... persons of the tyrannical profession , still , in the manner in which they respectively betray this inclination , there is a difference which strikes us as very curious ; not because it is unaccountable , but , indeed , for exactly the ...
... persons of the tyrannical profession , still , in the manner in which they respectively betray this inclination , there is a difference which strikes us as very curious ; not because it is unaccountable , but , indeed , for exactly the ...
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