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Seawards the islands and rocks rose like new - carven things ; westwards one looked down on and over the piers , almost deserted , of South Queensferry , then across to Rosyth , with its giant cranes idle in the smokeless air .
Seawards the islands and rocks rose like new - carven things ; westwards one looked down on and over the piers , almost deserted , of South Queensferry , then across to Rosyth , with its giant cranes idle in the smokeless air .
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The worst thing he has to say about the mine - sweeping is that it isn't exactly a picnic , and there is never a word ... things . And this modesty and dignity is so common among sea - faring men ! With a fine clarity which , somehow ...
The worst thing he has to say about the mine - sweeping is that it isn't exactly a picnic , and there is never a word ... things . And this modesty and dignity is so common among sea - faring men ! With a fine clarity which , somehow ...
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Curtis's admiration of native things . ... Such kingly supremacy was a very strong thing and very good - very strong in its efficiency , very good in the easy passage it provided for the rule of law ... when Ireland was added to the ...
Curtis's admiration of native things . ... Such kingly supremacy was a very strong thing and very good - very strong in its efficiency , very good in the easy passage it provided for the rule of law ... when Ireland was added to the ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 244 |
| Contributors | William 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 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1925 |
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