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 80
... matter is merely put forward in this light in order to drive home the fact that to attempt the control of such an enor mous quantity as 242,000 cusecs by means of earthen bund : is not of itself a prudent undertaking nor one to be ...
... matter is merely put forward in this light in order to drive home the fact that to attempt the control of such an enor mous quantity as 242,000 cusecs by means of earthen bund : is not of itself a prudent undertaking nor one to be ...
Page 86
... matter of faith rather than of proof ; and it is in the spirit of the zealot that she blames both the ' official historian ' whose business is ' not to inquire into causes , but to present the sequence of events in a manner ...
... matter of faith rather than of proof ; and it is in the spirit of the zealot that she blames both the ' official historian ' whose business is ' not to inquire into causes , but to present the sequence of events in a manner ...
Page 88
... matter how long one hunted . He adds that , in order to justify Robison's quotations , one would have to ' suppose a new book and new letters , ' for he ' makes the Illuminists speak far more plainly and pointedly than they ever did in ...
... matter how long one hunted . He adds that , in order to justify Robison's quotations , one would have to ' suppose a new book and new letters , ' for he ' makes the Illuminists speak far more plainly and pointedly than they ever did in ...
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... matter of history , we know that these ideals were found to be mutually destructive in practice ; the har- mony that seemed to exist in the Lodges became the conflict of the Clubs . We ourselves live in a day of utter disillusion ; and ...
... matter of history , we know that these ideals were found to be mutually destructive in practice ; the har- mony that seemed to exist in the Lodges became the conflict of the Clubs . We ourselves live in a day of utter disillusion ; and ...
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... matter of cold fact , Saint Simon clearly realised , in spite of his unbalanced brain , that the social organisa- tion of the Middle Ages - the product of an authoritative Church and the Feudal System - was crumbling , as an outworn ...
... matter of cold fact , Saint Simon clearly realised , in spite of his unbalanced brain , that the social organisa- tion of the Middle Ages - the product of an authoritative Church and the Feudal System - was crumbling , as an outworn ...
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