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Page 107
None of those who have attempted to reform it have yet succeeded ; nor unless portrait painters in general become more honest and their customers less vain is there much reason to expect that they ever will .
None of those who have attempted to reform it have yet succeeded ; nor unless portrait painters in general become more honest and their customers less vain is there much reason to expect that they ever will .
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... in the reform of the laws , an able body of administrators is spread over the provinces as fiscal officers and magistrates , developing their resources and repressing fraud and wrong . that A skilful A skilful body of engineers is ...
... in the reform of the laws , an able body of administrators is spread over the provinces as fiscal officers and magistrates , developing their resources and repressing fraud and wrong . that A skilful A skilful body of engineers is ...
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Those great qualities which alone could have forced a democratic Reform Bill on a constitutional party , and alone could have changed a majority of 75 into a minority of 11 , are as conspicuous at the end of the drama as at the ...
Those great qualities which alone could have forced a democratic Reform Bill on a constitutional party , and alone could have changed a majority of 75 into a minority of 11 , are as conspicuous at the end of the drama as at the ...
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A great portion of the Liberal majority had voted in favour of Reform in 1859 and 1860 , and many members of the Conservative party were known to wish for what is called ' the settlement of the question . ' It should have seemed that a ...
A great portion of the Liberal majority had voted in favour of Reform in 1859 and 1860 , and many members of the Conservative party were known to wish for what is called ' the settlement of the question . ' It should have seemed that a ...
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Yet it was no fault of manner that singly or mainly brought the Reform Government to the ground . No doubt Mr. Gladstone's singular dexterity in giving offence to waverers on the eve of critical divisions , may in the case both of Lord ...
Yet it was no fault of manner that singly or mainly brought the Reform Government to the ground . No doubt Mr. Gladstone's singular dexterity in giving offence to waverers on the eve of critical divisions , may in the case both of Lord ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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