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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... 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 be , and indeed has been more than once stretched ...
... 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 be , and indeed has been more than once stretched ...
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... least know how to be afraid ; but we are such uncommon people here ( at Cam- bridge ) as to have no more sense of danger than if the battle had been fought where and when the battle of Cannæ was .-- I heard three sensible middle - aged ...
... least know how to be afraid ; but we are such uncommon people here ( at Cam- bridge ) as to have no more sense of danger than if the battle had been fought where and when the battle of Cannæ was .-- I heard three sensible middle - aged ...
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... 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 , in our opinion ...
... 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 , in our opinion ...
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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