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Mr Sadleir ascribes his refusal to his physical incompetence ; the more obvious reason was fear of his mistress's jealousy . Evidence is forthcoming from the correspondence of Lady Charleville , a social rival of Lady Blessington's ...
Mr Sadleir ascribes his refusal to his physical incompetence ; the more obvious reason was fear of his mistress's jealousy . Evidence is forthcoming from the correspondence of Lady Charleville , a social rival of Lady Blessington's ...
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The stupendous increase in land values , which soon began to obtain in urban areas , further conduced to the unfortunate system of many houses on little land . The metropolis necessarily suffered severely by reason of this factor .
The stupendous increase in land values , which soon began to obtain in urban areas , further conduced to the unfortunate system of many houses on little land . The metropolis necessarily suffered severely by reason of this factor .
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His employment of the word ' reason ' in a sense directly opposite to its ordinary meaning is a stumbling - block to readers . We usually think of reason as the logical faculty , and what he termed ' reason'would better have been called ...
His employment of the word ' reason ' in a sense directly opposite to its ordinary meaning is a stumbling - block to readers . We usually think of reason as the logical faculty , and what he termed ' reason'would better have been called ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 262-263 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1934 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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