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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... whole of fabulous his- tory . It was very forcibly answered , therefore , that the ćra of a part of that history may , with the highest probability , be supposed to have fallen within the times of patriarchal longevity recorded in ...
... whole of fabulous his- tory . It was very forcibly answered , therefore , that the ćra of a part of that history may , with the highest probability , be supposed to have fallen within the times of patriarchal longevity recorded in ...
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... whole of the period now in question , the sovereignties of Sparta , Messene , Corinth , Arcadia , and Macedon , were regularly transmitted downwards in the course of lineal de- scent . What , then , more plain , than that the law of ...
... whole of the period now in question , the sovereignties of Sparta , Messene , Corinth , Arcadia , and Macedon , were regularly transmitted downwards in the course of lineal de- scent . What , then , more plain , than that the law of ...
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... whole history is minutely given , is sown thick with interruptions , chiefly indeed from deposals and usurpations . On the other hand , let us observe what we are called to believe in the Grecian history . First , there were two ...
... whole history is minutely given , is sown thick with interruptions , chiefly indeed from deposals and usurpations . On the other hand , let us observe what we are called to believe in the Grecian history . First , there were two ...
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... whole extent of ascertained history . For ourselves , we must own that we find this so great a demand on our credulity as we can ill afford to satisfy . Even the plainest terms of language seem to be confounded together , when we hear ...
... whole extent of ascertained history . For ourselves , we must own that we find this so great a demand on our credulity as we can ill afford to satisfy . Even the plainest terms of language seem to be confounded together , when we hear ...
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... whole question , must turn over a far greater quantity of materials than the utmost inge- nuity could compress into the space of the critique which we are now writing . Of arguments in opposition to the Newtonian sys- tem , no author ...
... whole question , must turn over a far greater quantity of materials than the utmost inge- nuity could compress into the space of the critique which we are now writing . Of arguments in opposition to the Newtonian sys- tem , no author ...
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