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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... possession of the gifts of fortune be envi- able , it is when we see them administered for such a pur- pose as this . Enviable too must have been the reflections of him who thus secured , as far as he could do , the erection of one ...
... possession of the gifts of fortune be envi- able , it is when we see them administered for such a pur- pose as this . Enviable too must have been the reflections of him who thus secured , as far as he could do , the erection of one ...
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... possession of it will not , perhaps , be deemed perfectly legitimate . That able divine was requested to point out the adaptation of external nature to man's intellectual and moral constitution . This certainly must be admitted to be a ...
... possession of it will not , perhaps , be deemed perfectly legitimate . That able divine was requested to point out the adaptation of external nature to man's intellectual and moral constitution . This certainly must be admitted to be a ...
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... possessed of . Thus we may perceive a wonderful relation between the mass of the globe and the budding of a snow - drop . Further , any con- siderable increase of the force of gravity , beyond that which we ex- perience at present ...
... possessed of . Thus we may perceive a wonderful relation between the mass of the globe and the budding of a snow - drop . Further , any con- siderable increase of the force of gravity , beyond that which we ex- perience at present ...
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... possession of in small ones ; in the time of Tacitus the evil was common to the communities of both : - " Vitium parvis magnisque civitatibus commune Ignorantium et invidiam . " - vol . i . , p . 23 . Every schoolboy knows the passage ...
... possession of in small ones ; in the time of Tacitus the evil was common to the communities of both : - " Vitium parvis magnisque civitatibus commune Ignorantium et invidiam . " - vol . i . , p . 23 . Every schoolboy knows the passage ...
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... possession of Mr. Morritt of Rokeby - is another , -not taken merely , as Mr. Cunningham seems to suppose , as the portrait of Miss Morris the actress , but because Miss Morris's face , and it is a very pretty one , furnished the ...
... possession of Mr. Morritt of Rokeby - is another , -not taken merely , as Mr. Cunningham seems to suppose , as the portrait of Miss Morris the actress , but because Miss Morris's face , and it is a very pretty one , furnished the ...
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