The Quarterly Review, Volumes 237-238William 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, 1922 |
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Page 26
... carried snuff - boxes adorned with pictures on the lids . At the time when the infamous impostor and perjured scoundrel , Titus Oates , was in al his glory , posing as an idol of fashionable ladies , a saviour of the State , and a ...
... carried snuff - boxes adorned with pictures on the lids . At the time when the infamous impostor and perjured scoundrel , Titus Oates , was in al his glory , posing as an idol of fashionable ladies , a saviour of the State , and a ...
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... carried in the other sex , it may be mentioned that , when the head of a beau was dissected after death , the cavities of the skull , which in ordinary people are filled with brains , were discovered to be stuffed with Spanish snuff ...
... carried in the other sex , it may be mentioned that , when the head of a beau was dissected after death , the cavities of the skull , which in ordinary people are filled with brains , were discovered to be stuffed with Spanish snuff ...
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... carried off as a hostage . After ten years of captivity Theodore tried to win over the heir to the Shoan throne by offering him his daughter in marriage . Sehala expressed himself pleased and flattered , but made use of. 1.
... carried off as a hostage . After ten years of captivity Theodore tried to win over the heir to the Shoan throne by offering him his daughter in marriage . Sehala expressed himself pleased and flattered , but made use of. 1.
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... carrying off not only their corn and cattle , but also their women and children . The Galla , too , formed the bulk of the Shoan population , but the Abyssinian minority had for more than a century reduced them to the position of serfs ...
... carrying off not only their corn and cattle , but also their women and children . The Galla , too , formed the bulk of the Shoan population , but the Abyssinian minority had for more than a century reduced them to the position of serfs ...
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... carried through practically without a blow . A few days later Yasu's forces at Harrar were defeated , and the renegade prince fled to his Danakil friends . On Oct. 27 his father , at the head of his Wollo army , was overwhelmed and made ...
... carried through practically without a blow . A few days later Yasu's forces at Harrar were defeated , and the renegade prince fled to his Danakil friends . On Oct. 27 his father , at the head of his Wollo army , was overwhelmed and made ...
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