The Quarterly Review, Volume 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1816 |
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... appears to be some- what better qualified than Captain Perceval for giving a just account of a portion of Ceylon . He made the tour of the whole sea - coast of the island , a journey of nearly 800 miles , in company with the governor ...
... appears to be some- what better qualified than Captain Perceval for giving a just account of a portion of Ceylon . He made the tour of the whole sea - coast of the island , a journey of nearly 800 miles , in company with the governor ...
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... appears to have pervaded all those countries where the doctrines of Boudh and Brahm have found or forced their way ... appear to be content with very little ; their dwellings are mud huts ; their furniture scanty ; fruit and rice are the ...
... appears to have pervaded all those countries where the doctrines of Boudh and Brahm have found or forced their way ... appear to be content with very little ; their dwellings are mud huts ; their furniture scanty ; fruit and rice are the ...
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... appears both in the tortures and painful death he inflicts , and in the extent of his punishments , namely , upon whole families , for miscarriage of one of them . For when the king is displeased with any , he does not always command to ...
... appears both in the tortures and painful death he inflicts , and in the extent of his punishments , namely , upon whole families , for miscarriage of one of them . For when the king is displeased with any , he does not always command to ...
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... appears also that height is sublimi- ty , without a metaphor , with the Singhalese . An ambassador , accompanied by ... appear like prisoners in a cage ; but they could never be en- tirely convinced that by placing the driver above them ...
... appears also that height is sublimi- ty , without a metaphor , with the Singhalese . An ambassador , accompanied by ... appear like prisoners in a cage ; but they could never be en- tirely convinced that by placing the driver above them ...
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... appears in the late notable instance of his arbitrary rejection of the narratives of the miraculous conception in the gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke ; and as has formerly appeared in the attempt to reject as spurious the exordium ...
... appears in the late notable instance of his arbitrary rejection of the narratives of the miraculous conception in the gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke ; and as has formerly appeared in the attempt to reject as spurious the exordium ...
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