The Quarterly Review, Volume 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1815 |
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Page 294
... chief , ' was an in- sult which nothing but blood could avenge . This peculiarity , which in the course of ages often took place , was one great source of war among the highland clans . When the direct lineage of a chief of an extended ...
... chief , ' was an in- sult which nothing but blood could avenge . This peculiarity , which in the course of ages often took place , was one great source of war among the highland clans . When the direct lineage of a chief of an extended ...
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... chief , subjected themselves to a tribe of predominating influence , whose name they assumed . In this case they continued to subsist as a dependent but distinct branch of the general community ; and their chief , now sunk to the rank ...
... chief , subjected themselves to a tribe of predominating influence , whose name they assumed . In this case they continued to subsist as a dependent but distinct branch of the general community ; and their chief , now sunk to the rank ...
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... Chief ; and even of the Duke of Newcastle , to whom I owe more compliance than to any man living ; because he is the only subject , to whom I have a real obligation . I must do his grace the justice to say that , after the first warmth ...
... Chief ; and even of the Duke of Newcastle , to whom I owe more compliance than to any man living ; because he is the only subject , to whom I have a real obligation . I must do his grace the justice to say that , after the first warmth ...
Contents
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
The Character of Moses established for Veracity as a Historian | 96 |
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