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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... lived before the flood . We should have had no press , no mathematics or astronomy , no eloquence or poetry , no steam - boats , rail - roads , or manufactures . Clothed in the skins of wild beasts , we should have sought shelter in the ...
... lived before the flood . We should have had no press , no mathematics or astronomy , no eloquence or poetry , no steam - boats , rail - roads , or manufactures . Clothed in the skins of wild beasts , we should have sought shelter in the ...
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... lived so little at home as Johnson did after he had a house in the neigh- bourhood of Fleet - street . " A second fears all old women as witches , and every black dog or cat he sees he suspecteth to be a devil . ” — ( Whether he ...
... lived so little at home as Johnson did after he had a house in the neigh- bourhood of Fleet - street . " A second fears all old women as witches , and every black dog or cat he sees he suspecteth to be a devil . ” — ( Whether he ...
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... lived in a less com- modious house in Johnson's Court , he had fitted up as a study an upper room , which had the advantages of good light and free air , where he was in a situation and circumstances that enabled him to enjoy the visits ...
... lived in a less com- modious house in Johnson's Court , he had fitted up as a study an upper room , which had the advantages of good light and free air , where he was in a situation and circumstances that enabled him to enjoy the visits ...
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... lived to ages greatly exceeding the average of mankind . Thus it is all through ; every alternate sentence in his work is contradicted by what precedes and follows , and both are refuted by the slightest reference to facts and common ...
... lived to ages greatly exceeding the average of mankind . Thus it is all through ; every alternate sentence in his work is contradicted by what precedes and follows , and both are refuted by the slightest reference to facts and common ...
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... lived 1350 years , while twenty authors on natural religion lived only 1245 - on what dis- tinction is Franklin distinguished as a natural and Lord Bacon as a moral philosopher ? Why is Leibnitz in one category and Descartes in another ...
... lived 1350 years , while twenty authors on natural religion lived only 1245 - on what dis- tinction is Franklin distinguished as a natural and Lord Bacon as a moral philosopher ? Why is Leibnitz in one category and Descartes in another ...
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