The Quarterly Review, Volume 237William 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 John Murray, 1922 |
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... social reform . In 1889 , like his predecessor John , he decreed the abolition of slavery except for captives taken in war . But , except that slaves were no longer sold in open market and the export trade was stopped , the decree ...
... social reform . In 1889 , like his predecessor John , he decreed the abolition of slavery except for captives taken in war . But , except that slaves were no longer sold in open market and the export trade was stopped , the decree ...
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... social distractions . Every weekday morning he pro- ceeded to his office , and every afternoon he returned to his suburban home ; on Sundays he went to church . Ealing possessed no citizen more regular in his habits or more blameless in ...
... social distractions . Every weekday morning he pro- ceeded to his office , and every afternoon he returned to his suburban home ; on Sundays he went to church . Ealing possessed no citizen more regular in his habits or more blameless in ...
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... social scene . This , however , recalls a portion of Austin Dobson's work to which I have not hitherto drawn attention , his prose , critical , historical , and biographical . This will be found to deal almost exclusively with the 18th ...
... social scene . This , however , recalls a portion of Austin Dobson's work to which I have not hitherto drawn attention , his prose , critical , historical , and biographical . This will be found to deal almost exclusively with the 18th ...
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... social- ism , we find it hard to fix responsibility . Mrs Webster , realising this difficulty , has in her new book , ' World Revolution , ' solved it by assuming that most of the social and democratic ideas that are troubling the world ...
... social- ism , we find it hard to fix responsibility . Mrs Webster , realising this difficulty , has in her new book , ' World Revolution , ' solved it by assuming that most of the social and democratic ideas that are troubling the world ...
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... social organisa- tion of the Middle Ages - the product of an authoritative Church and the Feudal System - was crumbling , as an outworn building crumbles , to decay , and that the prime task of thinkers was to rebuild society in the ...
... social organisa- tion of the Middle Ages - the product of an authoritative Church and the Feudal System - was crumbling , as an outworn building crumbles , to decay , and that the prime task of thinkers was to rebuild society in the ...
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