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Not the least extraordinary feature of the Australian situation is the sheer , overwhelming absurdity of the supposition that secession would lift Western Australia into the practical independence of Dominion status .
Not the least extraordinary feature of the Australian situation is the sheer , overwhelming absurdity of the supposition that secession would lift Western Australia into the practical independence of Dominion status .
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... the practical wisdom that comes from long experience . Is it too extravagant to suggest that some initiation into the actualities of prison - life should be a preliminary to a seat upon any bench with criminal jurisdiction ?
... the practical wisdom that comes from long experience . Is it too extravagant to suggest that some initiation into the actualities of prison - life should be a preliminary to a seat upon any bench with criminal jurisdiction ?
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... weapon of Jena and Austerlitz - had he really inherited the great Bonaparte's energetic and practical genius , his influence would not have been the crumbling force it was and that led him , knowing himself but hazardously enthroned ...
... weapon of Jena and Austerlitz - had he really inherited the great Bonaparte's energetic and practical genius , his influence would not have been the crumbling force it was and that led him , knowing himself but hazardously enthroned ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 265, Issue 525 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1935 |
| Original from | University of Florida |
| Digitized | 21 Apr 2022 |
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