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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... thing , about 333 years to a generation . On this principle , the genealogical chro- nologies of the ancients seem to have been computed ; and it is ap- plied in the same manner by M. Clavier . But here it is particularly to be observed ...
... thing , about 333 years to a generation . On this principle , the genealogical chro- nologies of the ancients seem to have been computed ; and it is ap- plied in the same manner by M. Clavier . But here it is particularly to be observed ...
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... thing , a list of suc cessive kings is very seldom a genealogy . genealogy . But , besides the occa- sional supersession of the direct by the collateral line , kings are frequently deposed , and the substituted individual may be of ...
... thing , a list of suc cessive kings is very seldom a genealogy . genealogy . But , besides the occa- sional supersession of the direct by the collateral line , kings are frequently deposed , and the substituted individual may be of ...
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... thing to be proved as part of the proof . It is not making one difficulty explain another , only because it approaches to the still more questionable device of making a difficulty explain itself . Single examples , we again admit , may ...
... thing to be proved as part of the proof . It is not making one difficulty explain another , only because it approaches to the still more questionable device of making a difficulty explain itself . Single examples , we again admit , may ...
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... things ; but previously to these , the chronologers palm upon us fifteen or six- teen successive kings of each line , one and all of them in the direct descent ; a relation , which surely cannot be received without much hesitation and ...
... things ; but previously to these , the chronologers palm upon us fifteen or six- teen successive kings of each line , one and all of them in the direct descent ; a relation , which surely cannot be received without much hesitation and ...
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... things , that the presumption is the other way , any man may satisfy himself , who will attend to such histories of the course of private families as he has the means of knowing . Yet this is , in some re- spects , the weaker case . For ...
... things , that the presumption is the other way , any man may satisfy himself , who will attend to such histories of the course of private families as he has the means of knowing . Yet this is , in some re- spects , the weaker case . For ...
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