The Quarterly Review, Volume 19William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1819 - English literature |
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Page 55
... importance to the reader to know what were the circumstances which brought about so hopeful a change in our tra- veller's sentiments , except in so far as they may tend to explain the source of his discontent , and of those hostile ...
... importance to the reader to know what were the circumstances which brought about so hopeful a change in our tra- veller's sentiments , except in so far as they may tend to explain the source of his discontent , and of those hostile ...
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... important subject should produce no false impressions on the minds of his countrymen . The following extracts will show what his views are . From what I have seen , and heard from others , of America , east of the Allegany mountains , I ...
... important subject should produce no false impressions on the minds of his countrymen . The following extracts will show what his views are . From what I have seen , and heard from others , of America , east of the Allegany mountains , I ...
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... important part of statistics , dis- tinguishes the different employments of men with a minuteness which is highly curious , though , in our complicated system of society , it would be hardly attainable . We have however before us some ...
... important part of statistics , dis- tinguishes the different employments of men with a minuteness which is highly curious , though , in our complicated system of society , it would be hardly attainable . We have however before us some ...
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... important object with a munifi- cence of which no age or country has ever yet seen an example , I could wish , ' says King Edward , that when time shall serve , the superfluous and tedious statutes were brought into one sum together ...
... important object with a munifi- cence of which no age or country has ever yet seen an example , I could wish , ' says King Edward , that when time shall serve , the superfluous and tedious statutes were brought into one sum together ...
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... important part of policy , and with- out which all other measures of good government are imperfect and insecure . The Utopians understood this well : - ' summam adhi- bent industriam , ut bonas protenus opiniones , et conservanda ipso ...
... important part of policy , and with- out which all other measures of good government are imperfect and insecure . The Utopians understood this well : - ' summam adhi- bent industriam , ut bonas protenus opiniones , et conservanda ipso ...
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