The Quarterly Review, Volume 212William 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, 1910 |
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... parliamentary schemes are not much to my taste . I spoke twice last session , and was told it was well enough . . . . On Sunday I set off with the Oxfords . I see you put on a demure look at the name ; but I am quite out of a more ...
... parliamentary schemes are not much to my taste . I spoke twice last session , and was told it was well enough . . . . On Sunday I set off with the Oxfords . I see you put on a demure look at the name ; but I am quite out of a more ...
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... parliamentary committees during the eighteenth century ; and the charges have been repeated by modern antiquaries . Some of us will recall the brilliant passages in which the late Prof. Maitland described those shameful scenes ; and a ...
... parliamentary committees during the eighteenth century ; and the charges have been repeated by modern antiquaries . Some of us will recall the brilliant passages in which the late Prof. Maitland described those shameful scenes ; and a ...
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... Parliament ; and , even in causes in which the Crown was interested , an appeal to such documentary evidence was readily conceded . During the seventeenth century the records were of course regarded from a constitutional point of view ...
... Parliament ; and , even in causes in which the Crown was interested , an appeal to such documentary evidence was readily conceded . During the seventeenth century the records were of course regarded from a constitutional point of view ...
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... Parliaments ' ; but they are seldom rightly understood by English scholars . In the case of Scotland , there has existed from very early times a collection of national records which has fortunately survived several wanton acts of ...
... Parliaments ' ; but they are seldom rightly understood by English scholars . In the case of Scotland , there has existed from very early times a collection of national records which has fortunately survived several wanton acts of ...
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... of outstanding documents , renders an extension of the present buildings inevitable during the present generation . The sanction of Parliament has also been invoked for the destruction of superfluous documents , in NATIONAL ARCHIVES 39.
... of outstanding documents , renders an extension of the present buildings inevitable during the present generation . The sanction of Parliament has also been invoked for the destruction of superfluous documents , in NATIONAL ARCHIVES 39.
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