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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... thought allowable for commentators to select such as they may best approve . At the same time , all conjectural emendation of the sacred text is strictly prohibited ; not from any absurd or superstitious reverence for the mortal vehicle ...
... thought allowable for commentators to select such as they may best approve . At the same time , all conjectural emendation of the sacred text is strictly prohibited ; not from any absurd or superstitious reverence for the mortal vehicle ...
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... thought to aim at ; but when the falsity of this pretence was abundantly detected , then Porphyry thought he " could compass the end aimed at by another way ; he endea- voured to shew that the heathen history did not reach so far back ...
... thought to aim at ; but when the falsity of this pretence was abundantly detected , then Porphyry thought he " could compass the end aimed at by another way ; he endea- voured to shew that the heathen history did not reach so far back ...
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... thought of the judgment of that historian , we had conceived that the suffrages of the learned world were now nearly unanimous in favour of his honesty ; but , to speak our own sentiments , we are inclined to question whether any man ...
... thought of the judgment of that historian , we had conceived that the suffrages of the learned world were now nearly unanimous in favour of his honesty ; but , to speak our own sentiments , we are inclined to question whether any man ...
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... thought by many philosophers to have ultimately rendered the crusades very signally beneficial to the western world . But , acquiescing in this account , we cannot therefore accede to some of the speculations with which the author has ...
... thought by many philosophers to have ultimately rendered the crusades very signally beneficial to the western world . But , acquiescing in this account , we cannot therefore accede to some of the speculations with which the author has ...
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... thought to perform a great service , but that the merits of the service are supposed to be much enhanced when it is under- taken by an uninvited volunteer . Pisistratus was , once and again , expelled from his government and from Athens ...
... thought to perform a great service , but that the merits of the service are supposed to be much enhanced when it is under- taken by an uninvited volunteer . Pisistratus was , once and again , expelled from his government and from Athens ...
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