The Quarterly Review, Volumes 241-242William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1924 - English literature |
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... politicians to the wits . The spirit of comedy spares neither enemy nor friend , and , indeed , owes no fealty to any ... political parties . Politicians believe that they distrust the comic spirit because it is not sufficiently serious ...
... politicians to the wits . The spirit of comedy spares neither enemy nor friend , and , indeed , owes no fealty to any ... political parties . Politicians believe that they distrust the comic spirit because it is not sufficiently serious ...
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... political science , or New Testament criticism , or education . He is essentially an amateur . He relies on the sum total of his view , together with his ' sinuous and easy ' style . · And what a style it is ! Careless as the clothes of ...
... political science , or New Testament criticism , or education . He is essentially an amateur . He relies on the sum total of his view , together with his ' sinuous and easy ' style . · And what a style it is ! Careless as the clothes of ...
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... political thought - the illustrious Machiavelli . They idolise their own countries , but they reverence nothing else ; and the idea that any nation should look i upon the things of others without desiring to posse them L 2 BRITISH ...
... political thought - the illustrious Machiavelli . They idolise their own countries , but they reverence nothing else ; and the idea that any nation should look i upon the things of others without desiring to posse them L 2 BRITISH ...
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... political detachment - th splendid isolation - that we share with them there i latent a search for and yearning after peace and good will , then on the foundation of an Anglo - America understanding light may yet arise in obscurity and ...
... political detachment - th splendid isolation - that we share with them there i latent a search for and yearning after peace and good will , then on the foundation of an Anglo - America understanding light may yet arise in obscurity and ...
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... political colleagues of which more in a moment , would make a piquan and disturbing volume ; they were sometimes mordant often witty , and always shrewd . He was a maste of dialectic , and in the thrust and counter - thrust of a ...
... political colleagues of which more in a moment , would make a piquan and disturbing volume ; they were sometimes mordant often witty , and always shrewd . He was a maste of dialectic , and in the thrust and counter - thrust of a ...
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