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Without anticipating any such event , we may at least admit it to be within the scope of possibility ... To hold a country containing a population of sixty millions by military possession , is holding it by a single thread , which may ...
Without anticipating any such event , we may at least admit it to be within the scope of possibility ... To hold a country containing a population of sixty millions by military possession , is holding it by a single thread , which may ...
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paints an indifference yet more ominous to the public cause than the general panic : The common people in town at least know how to be afraid ; but we are such uncommon people here ( at Cambridge ) as to have no more sense of danger ...
paints an indifference yet more ominous to the public cause than the general panic : The common people in town at least know how to be afraid ; but we are such uncommon people here ( at Cambridge ) as to have no more sense of danger ...
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He has , at least , the merit of telling it with decency ; and , bating the qualities of versification , expression , and dignity , on which he peculiarly piques himself , and in which he has utterly failed , the poem is one which ...
He has , at least , the merit of telling it with decency ; and , bating the qualities of versification , expression , and dignity , on which he peculiarly piques himself , and in which he has utterly failed , the poem is one which ...
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Contents
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A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 14 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1815 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 23 Feb 2017 |
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