The Quarterly Review, Volume 285William 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, 1947 |
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... modern economy are coal , petroleum , and iron ore , and in so far as these are the very things which Italy most lacks , she has always in modern times been a poor country . Her chronic problem is that of poverty , and the physical ...
... modern economy are coal , petroleum , and iron ore , and in so far as these are the very things which Italy most lacks , she has always in modern times been a poor country . Her chronic problem is that of poverty , and the physical ...
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... modern or new . It has been said ( a little rashly perhaps ) that Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare respec- tively never saw a horse chestnut or a tulip , and to some people both species may be almost as modern as the blue poppies which ...
... modern or new . It has been said ( a little rashly perhaps ) that Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare respec- tively never saw a horse chestnut or a tulip , and to some people both species may be almost as modern as the blue poppies which ...
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... modern standards and has been exhausted ; the second has largely been replaced by synthetic substitutes ; humanity has banned the trade in humans ; and modern fashions no longer crave the ostrich feather . By the beginning of the ...
... modern standards and has been exhausted ; the second has largely been replaced by synthetic substitutes ; humanity has banned the trade in humans ; and modern fashions no longer crave the ostrich feather . By the beginning of the ...
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