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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... present state of classical learning in France is , perhaps , scarcely so flourishing as might naturally have been expected . After all that has been said on the question , whether it is under the influence of liberty , or the fostering ...
... present state of classical learning in France is , perhaps , scarcely so flourishing as might naturally have been expected . After all that has been said on the question , whether it is under the influence of liberty , or the fostering ...
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... present number will sufficiently evince , is not without exceptions ; and certainly , a very respectable one now lies before us . The classical acquirements of M. Cla- vier have , it seems , procured for him the patronage of the French ...
... present number will sufficiently evince , is not without exceptions ; and certainly , a very respectable one now lies before us . The classical acquirements of M. Cla- vier have , it seems , procured for him the patronage of the French ...
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... presents to the world . On the contrary , he declares himself under the deepest obligations to a countryman of his ... present writer , and may be considered as constituting him the founder of a new chronological school . To those who ...
... presents to the world . On the contrary , he declares himself under the deepest obligations to a countryman of his ... present writer , and may be considered as constituting him the founder of a new chronological school . To those who ...
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... present author , on the contrary , has been uniformly faithful to his polar star of genealogy ; and it has guided him to a point somewhat more below the vulgar standard than Freret ascended beyond it . By the vulgar standard we mean ...
... present author , on the contrary , has been uniformly faithful to his polar star of genealogy ; and it has guided him to a point somewhat more below the vulgar standard than Freret ascended beyond it . By the vulgar standard we mean ...
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... present level . It still remains , then , to be explained , why the chronology of the regal lines below the Trojan war should not be reduced according to the modern staudard . And it is observable , that , if these are so reduced , the ...
... present level . It still remains , then , to be explained , why the chronology of the regal lines below the Trojan war should not be reduced according to the modern staudard . And it is observable , that , if these are so reduced , the ...
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