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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... possessed of very good qualifications for historical criticism . In- deed , the account which the author has given of the effects pro- * Scholies sur Homère , Iliade , Lib . 1. v . 5 . 4 VOL , V. NO . 1X . duced by the Trojan war on the ...
... possessed of very good qualifications for historical criticism . In- deed , the account which the author has given of the effects pro- * Scholies sur Homère , Iliade , Lib . 1. v . 5 . 4 VOL , V. NO . 1X . duced by the Trojan war on the ...
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... possessions ; -that he repudiated his first wife ( the daughter of Desiderius , ) on the ground of her having borne him no chil- dren ; —that , having signally triumphed in Germany and Italy , and been crowned emperor by the Pope , who ...
... possessions ; -that he repudiated his first wife ( the daughter of Desiderius , ) on the ground of her having borne him no chil- dren ; —that , having signally triumphed in Germany and Italy , and been crowned emperor by the Pope , who ...
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... possession of any great share of democratical prejudice , we must acknowledge that , both in perusing the pages of Mr. Mitford and those of M. Clavier , we have been much fatigued by the perpetual recurrence of a defensive or a ...
... possession of any great share of democratical prejudice , we must acknowledge that , both in perusing the pages of Mr. Mitford and those of M. Clavier , we have been much fatigued by the perpetual recurrence of a defensive or a ...
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... possessed himself of the city and territory of Pisa , then regarded as sacred ( or , in modern Europe it might be called , ecclesiastical ) ground throughout Greece . Here , however , his triumphs re- ceived a check . The Lacedemonians ...
... possessed himself of the city and territory of Pisa , then regarded as sacred ( or , in modern Europe it might be called , ecclesiastical ) ground throughout Greece . Here , however , his triumphs re- ceived a check . The Lacedemonians ...
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... possession of kingly power , without any reference to the manner in which that power is exercised . The only ... possessed himself of the chief authority in Athens , is , according to the com- mon mode of relating the story , well known ...
... possession of kingly power , without any reference to the manner in which that power is exercised . The only ... possessed himself of the chief authority in Athens , is , according to the com- mon mode of relating the story , well known ...
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