The Quarterly Review, Volume 159William 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, 1885 |
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... period to which we are referred , as the period when the Highland soil was owned by the Highland people , is a period which , beginning in the Middle Ages , is supposed by them to have lasted till the downfall of the clan system ...
... period to which we are referred , as the period when the Highland soil was owned by the Highland people , is a period which , beginning in the Middle Ages , is supposed by them to have lasted till the downfall of the clan system ...
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... period of the clearings exactly synchronized with a period at which such a waste would have been felt throughout the kingdom . The population of Great Britain was increasing with unheard - of rapidity ; the foreign meat - supplies , on ...
... period of the clearings exactly synchronized with a period at which such a waste would have been felt throughout the kingdom . The population of Great Britain was increasing with unheard - of rapidity ; the foreign meat - supplies , on ...
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... period that we are concerned in the present sketch . After the recovery of her political independence in 1814 , Geneva , for about a quarter of a century , became again one of the centres of the intellectual life of Europe . All the ...
... period that we are concerned in the present sketch . After the recovery of her political independence in 1814 , Geneva , for about a quarter of a century , became again one of the centres of the intellectual life of Europe . All the ...
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London 1884 | 450 |
Hansards Parliamentary Debates 18821884 | 480 |
And other Works | 499 |
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