The Quarterly Review, Volumes 246-247William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1926 |
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... ignore this lesson of the past is the opposite extreme to the exaggerated worship of fifty years ago . Both are equally futile . We are not better men than Vol . 246.-No. 487 . our fathers , however much our bold young men may.
... ignore this lesson of the past is the opposite extreme to the exaggerated worship of fifty years ago . Both are equally futile . We are not better men than Vol . 246.-No. 487 . our fathers , however much our bold young men may.
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... past . As for the future , he was content with that short length ahead , still hidden from his fellows , which the power of his imagination enabled him dimly to foresee . Take , for example , two men to whom perhaps modern English ...
... past . As for the future , he was content with that short length ahead , still hidden from his fellows , which the power of his imagination enabled him dimly to foresee . Take , for example , two men to whom perhaps modern English ...
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... past has no meaning for them , and that all that they have to do is to look to the present . Instead of the assiduous study of the master- pieces of the past , to which most of us owe what little skill we possess in the art of design ...
... past has no meaning for them , and that all that they have to do is to look to the present . Instead of the assiduous study of the master- pieces of the past , to which most of us owe what little skill we possess in the art of design ...
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... past . Mr Robertson's reference to the work of that past is exiguous and somewhat uncritical . He mentions as prominent examples of Renaissance houses , Castle Howard ( Vanbrugh ) , Kedleston ( Pain and R. Adam ) , Coleshill ( Inigo ...
... past . Mr Robertson's reference to the work of that past is exiguous and somewhat uncritical . He mentions as prominent examples of Renaissance houses , Castle Howard ( Vanbrugh ) , Kedleston ( Pain and R. Adam ) , Coleshill ( Inigo ...
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... past . The idea is about as valuable as that of Esperanto . We cannot dissociate ourselves from the past , whether we want to or not , and the results of the attempt to do so are seen in the idiotic failures which are now held up to us ...
... past . The idea is about as valuable as that of Esperanto . We cannot dissociate ourselves from the past , whether we want to or not , and the results of the attempt to do so are seen in the idiotic failures which are now held up to us ...
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