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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... reasons of our doubts on the sub- ject , we shall no longer particularly keep in view the distinction between the chronology of Usher and that of M. Clavier ; for , though that distinction amounts to little less than the interval of a ...
... reasons of our doubts on the sub- ject , we shall no longer particularly keep in view the distinction between the chronology of Usher and that of M. Clavier ; for , though that distinction amounts to little less than the interval of a ...
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... reason shall be assigned for excepting , not one of these as an accidental case , but almost altogether , from a maxim of known universality , and throw the burden of proof on their opponents . To a certain extent , a reply has been ...
... reason shall be assigned for excepting , not one of these as an accidental case , but almost altogether , from a maxim of known universality , and throw the burden of proof on their opponents . To a certain extent , a reply has been ...
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... reason for deviating from all established canons of computation , some new calculus , confessed- ly neither sauctioned by experience , nor prescribed by unerring authority . It was comparatively little for the ancient chronologers to ...
... reason for deviating from all established canons of computation , some new calculus , confessed- ly neither sauctioned by experience , nor prescribed by unerring authority . It was comparatively little for the ancient chronologers to ...
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... reason and his heart would alike have told him , that no man could doubt under which class of go- vernments he reckoned that of his own country , or would question the justice of the arrangement . The case of our neighbours is by no ...
... reason and his heart would alike have told him , that no man could doubt under which class of go- vernments he reckoned that of his own country , or would question the justice of the arrangement . The case of our neighbours is by no ...
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... reason . Mr. Mitford , who is one of a free people , has too much of an English mind to look with favour on usurpation , by whatever mo- tives or pretences sanctified . His usual tendency , therefore , with respect to the Greek tyrants ...
... reason . Mr. Mitford , who is one of a free people , has too much of an English mind to look with favour on usurpation , by whatever mo- tives or pretences sanctified . His usual tendency , therefore , with respect to the Greek tyrants ...
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