The Quarterly Review, Volume 165William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1887 - English literature |
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... social disturbances in an earlier one : not enough to the part played by the character , conduct , and mental , moral , and physical constitution , of individual men and women . No such criticism can be fairly applied to the volumes.
... social disturbances in an earlier one : not enough to the part played by the character , conduct , and mental , moral , and physical constitution , of individual men and women . No such criticism can be fairly applied to the volumes.
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... character and claims of Mr. Pitt , after all the storms which they have weathered , will succumb even to these impassioned onslaughts of genius and eloquence . Still , grave charges have been made by high authority ; they have been ...
... character and claims of Mr. Pitt , after all the storms which they have weathered , will succumb even to these impassioned onslaughts of genius and eloquence . Still , grave charges have been made by high authority ; they have been ...
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... character . Mr. Lecky persuades himself that he can detect , in Gainsborough's noble portraits of the young Minister , the outward and visible traces of that severe morality and habitual self - restraint which his opponents were not ...
... character . Mr. Lecky persuades himself that he can detect , in Gainsborough's noble portraits of the young Minister , the outward and visible traces of that severe morality and habitual self - restraint which his opponents were not ...
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... character of the peerage was destroyed by Mr. Pitt . In Lord Beaconsfield's words , He created a plebeian aristocracy and blended it with the patrician oligarchy . He made peers of second - rate squires and fat graziers . He caught them ...
... character of the peerage was destroyed by Mr. Pitt . In Lord Beaconsfield's words , He created a plebeian aristocracy and blended it with the patrician oligarchy . He made peers of second - rate squires and fat graziers . He caught them ...
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... character of established religion in this country , and largely affected the complexion and aspect of secular society . Wesley himself had received his first impressions of religion from the Serious Call ' and ' Christian Perfection ...
... character of established religion in this country , and largely affected the complexion and aspect of secular society . Wesley himself had received his first impressions of religion from the Serious Call ' and ' Christian Perfection ...
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