The Quarterly Review, Volume 50William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1834 |
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... French writer , whose elaborate tables , though not always accurate , offer in most in- stances an approximation to the truth , has estimated the ordinary number of our sheep at forty - two millions , of our cattle at ten millions , and ...
... French writer , whose elaborate tables , though not always accurate , offer in most in- stances an approximation to the truth , has estimated the ordinary number of our sheep at forty - two millions , of our cattle at ten millions , and ...
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... French portraits , the lioness of the day , Reynolds held the following characteristic dialogue with Northcote : - " Pray what do you think of them , Sir Joshua ? " Reynolds- " That they are very fine . " Northcote- " How fine ...
... French portraits , the lioness of the day , Reynolds held the following characteristic dialogue with Northcote : - " Pray what do you think of them , Sir Joshua ? " Reynolds- " That they are very fine . " Northcote- " How fine ...
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... French revolution was at that time giving hopes to the young and fears to the old . Fuseli was slightly smitten ; but the cap of liberty itself seemed to have fallen on the heart as well as the head of the lady ; who conducted herself ...
... French revolution was at that time giving hopes to the young and fears to the old . Fuseli was slightly smitten ; but the cap of liberty itself seemed to have fallen on the heart as well as the head of the lady ; who conducted herself ...
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... French . Sir Robert Walpole had neither German nor French , and talked with George I. in Latin . It may be suspected that their conferences would sometimes ( as Milton says ) -have made Quintilian stare and gasp . ' I was very uneasy ...
... French . Sir Robert Walpole had neither German nor French , and talked with George I. in Latin . It may be suspected that their conferences would sometimes ( as Milton says ) -have made Quintilian stare and gasp . ' I was very uneasy ...
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... French Revolution - the end and the beginning of so many things - compelled him to abandon this project . The sources of information became closed or difficult of access ; it was a waste of labour in that time of subversion and change ...
... French Revolution - the end and the beginning of so many things - compelled him to abandon this project . The sources of information became closed or difficult of access ; it was a waste of labour in that time of subversion and change ...
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