The Quarterly Review, Volume 246William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle John Murray, 1926 |
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Page 122
... Hungarians are there to do it , there will almost certainly ensue a torrent of conversation worthy of an Eastern bazaar . They love to talk . To the foreigner this loquacity is all the more annoying because , with rare exceptions , he ...
... Hungarians are there to do it , there will almost certainly ensue a torrent of conversation worthy of an Eastern bazaar . They love to talk . To the foreigner this loquacity is all the more annoying because , with rare exceptions , he ...
Page 123
... Hungarian to national temperament than to any defect of his native tongue . A wise old Hungarian banker once said to me , ' The trouble with my country is too much wine , too much paprika , and too much talk . ' Paprika is a national ...
... Hungarian to national temperament than to any defect of his native tongue . A wise old Hungarian banker once said to me , ' The trouble with my country is too much wine , too much paprika , and too much talk . ' Paprika is a national ...
Page 124
... Hungarian becomes . I have watched many a time in country towns and villages peasants toughened by years of toil in ... Hungarians are first and last an open - air , out - of - doors people . This is true not only of the agriculturists ...
... Hungarian becomes . I have watched many a time in country towns and villages peasants toughened by years of toil in ... Hungarians are first and last an open - air , out - of - doors people . This is true not only of the agriculturists ...
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... Hungarians have not forgotten Kinizsy , whom my friend George A. Birmingham , ' in his delightful book , ' A Wayfarer in Hungary , ' thus describes : 6 ' There was a mighty Hungarian warrior , one Kinizsy , whom the Turks called a ...
... Hungarians have not forgotten Kinizsy , whom my friend George A. Birmingham , ' in his delightful book , ' A Wayfarer in Hungary , ' thus describes : 6 ' There was a mighty Hungarian warrior , one Kinizsy , whom the Turks called a ...
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... Hungarian money was daily rushing down the hill of depreciation and prices were soaring . The State was faced with bankruptcy , and the people with indi- vidual ruin . Opposition newspapers declared that Count Bethlen had failed ...
... Hungarian money was daily rushing down the hill of depreciation and prices were soaring . The State was faced with bankruptcy , and the people with indi- vidual ruin . Opposition newspapers declared that Count Bethlen had failed ...
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