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An instance , trifling in itself , of the author's frequent inexactness is his description of the wedding of the Kaiser's daughter : Troops lined the walls of the White Hall and passed torches from hand to hand .
An instance , trifling in itself , of the author's frequent inexactness is his description of the wedding of the Kaiser's daughter : Troops lined the walls of the White Hall and passed torches from hand to hand .
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Has she pledged or mortgaged her right hand to Benjamin Constant or others ? or has M. Rocca engaged his right hand to some provoking wife who will not die ? Pray explain the difficulty to me . Why does Madame de S. do the business so ...
Has she pledged or mortgaged her right hand to Benjamin Constant or others ? or has M. Rocca engaged his right hand to some provoking wife who will not die ? Pray explain the difficulty to me . Why does Madame de S. do the business so ...
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We no longer hold with Adam Smith that a man may safely be left to pursue what he believes to be his own interest in his own way , since in so doing he will infallibly be led by an ' invisible hand ' to promote the interests of society ...
We no longer hold with Adam Smith that a man may safely be left to pursue what he believes to be his own interest in his own way , since in so doing he will infallibly be led by an ' invisible hand ' to promote the interests of society ...
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Contents
ART PACE 1 1 Imperial Defence and the International Situation | 1 |
The Perversion of Mountaineering | 2 |
De Mortuis | 3 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 268-269 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1937 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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