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For one thing it is unable to make baskets , a fact over which Mr Rose exults . Of wind - mills , water - mills , and wooden pumps he has interesting things to say ; but the joy of the book is in the pride of work that it shows ...
For one thing it is unable to make baskets , a fact over which Mr Rose exults . Of wind - mills , water - mills , and wooden pumps he has interesting things to say ; but the joy of the book is in the pride of work that it shows ...
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Hence , scarcely noted among greater things , the convict ships and the convict settlements became a part of the British environment . Later on it broke into literature . But the poetry of the moment found no place for it .
Hence , scarcely noted among greater things , the convict ships and the convict settlements became a part of the British environment . Later on it broke into literature . But the poetry of the moment found no place for it .
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Yet to smash up a thing merely because it is old is almost as unreasonable as to imitate it merely because it is new . ... an incalculable value in the scheme of mortal things , and in that of immortal things it must always be supreme .
Yet to smash up a thing merely because it is old is almost as unreasonable as to imitate it merely because it is new . ... an incalculable value in the scheme of mortal things , and in that of immortal things it must always be supreme .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 270-271 |
| Contributors | William 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 |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1938 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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