The Quarterly Review, Volume 110John Murray, 1861 |
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... present day is remarkable . We might search in vain for a writer who , with equal powers , has made an equally slight impression upon the general public . His style is superb : his powers reasoning unsurpassed : his imagination is warm ...
... present day is remarkable . We might search in vain for a writer who , with equal powers , has made an equally slight impression upon the general public . His style is superb : his powers reasoning unsurpassed : his imagination is warm ...
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... present age , should have comparatively wasted his opportunities , and left us his most precious ideas in the condition of the Sibyl's leaves after they had been scattered by the wind . Hence those who approach him with any serious ...
... present age , should have comparatively wasted his opportunities , and left us his most precious ideas in the condition of the Sibyl's leaves after they had been scattered by the wind . Hence those who approach him with any serious ...
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... present day . He seems to have thought there was a good deal in Newman's theory of development , not as tending to favour Romanism , but as helping to harmonize Scrip- ture with modern thought . He appears to mean that concur- rently ...
... present day . He seems to have thought there was a good deal in Newman's theory of development , not as tending to favour Romanism , but as helping to harmonize Scrip- ture with modern thought . He appears to mean that concur- rently ...
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... present purpose to say very much of this extra- ordinary piece of composition ; all that it contains of biogra- phical interest we have embodied in the earlier part of this article ; of the remainder we cannot say anything that has not ...
... present purpose to say very much of this extra- ordinary piece of composition ; all that it contains of biogra- phical interest we have embodied in the earlier part of this article ; of the remainder we cannot say anything that has not ...
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... present Selections ; and also in a separate volume , entitled the ' Logic of Political Economy . ' These essays are commentaries illustrative , confirmatory , and supplementary , of Mr. Ricardo ; and we believe we may say that they are ...
... present Selections ; and also in a separate volume , entitled the ' Logic of Political Economy . ' These essays are commentaries illustrative , confirmatory , and supplementary , of Mr. Ricardo ; and we believe we may say that they are ...
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