The Quarterly Review, Volume 250William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1928 |
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... practices ; how they dressed and comported themselves ; walked , danced , flirted , rode and played their games ; how they behaved at and after Church , at the opera , and in Parliament - what a falling- off seems to be there ! -for it ...
... practices ; how they dressed and comported themselves ; walked , danced , flirted , rode and played their games ; how they behaved at and after Church , at the opera , and in Parliament - what a falling- off seems to be there ! -for it ...
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... practice . The aforetime footstool was often a disguised cuspidor . Chewing tobacco , a nasty habit , with its odious accom- paniments , also has gone ; and Byron chewed as Napoleon spat . Snuff - taking was not nearly so bad in its ...
... practice . The aforetime footstool was often a disguised cuspidor . Chewing tobacco , a nasty habit , with its odious accom- paniments , also has gone ; and Byron chewed as Napoleon spat . Snuff - taking was not nearly so bad in its ...
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... practice to the other was not gradual . It had its rapid ups - and- downs , as the fortunes of the nation changed , and politics or war brought a louder expression of feelings . The ruling families , the landed gentry , those who had ...
... practice to the other was not gradual . It had its rapid ups - and- downs , as the fortunes of the nation changed , and politics or war brought a louder expression of feelings . The ruling families , the landed gentry , those who had ...
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... practice . The ordinary course is a petition for a reception order presented , if possible , by the husband or wife or a relative of the alleged lunatic . The petitioner must be at least twenty- one years of age and must have seen the ...
... practice . The ordinary course is a petition for a reception order presented , if possible , by the husband or wife or a relative of the alleged lunatic . The petitioner must be at least twenty- one years of age and must have seen the ...
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... practice of Justices of the Peace who possess no qualifications for giving a separate opinion . They must almost invariably form their opinion on the medical certificate produced before them , which it must be remembered that any doctor ...
... practice of Justices of the Peace who possess no qualifications for giving a separate opinion . They must almost invariably form their opinion on the medical certificate produced before them , which it must be remembered that any doctor ...
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Page 274 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 143 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Page 133 - I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
Page 134 - Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illuc, unde negant redire quemquam. At vobis male sit, malae tenebrae Orci, quae omnia bella devoratis : Tam bellum mihi passerem abstulistis.
Page 132 - Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe.
Page 88 - If a spirit of rapacious covetousness, desecrating all the humanities of life, has been the besetting sin of England for the last century and a half, since the passing of the Reform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with triple worship. To acquire, to accumulate, to plunder each other by virtue of philosophic phrases, to propose a Utopia to consist only of WEALTH and TOIL, this has been the breathless business of enfranchised England for the last twelve years, until we are startled from our voracious...
Page 410 - If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine— a friend— or being dry— Or lest we should be, by and by— Or any other reason why!
Page 139 - Chommoda dicebat, si quando commoda vellet Dicere, et insidias Arrius hinsidias, Et tum mirifice sperabat se esse locutum, Cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsidias.
Page 79 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 133 - IVCVNDVM, mea vita, mihi proponis amorem hunc nostrum inter nos perpetuumque fore. di magni, facite ut vere promittere possit, atque id sincere dicat et ex animo, ut liceat nobis tota perducere vita aeternum hoc sanctae foedus amicitiae.