The Quarterly Review, Volume 36William 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, 1827 |
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... less indispensable that he should possess a vernacular knowledge of the language into which he engages to translate . Without this , his attempt to convey the sense of the original in a style sufficiently pure and idiomatic to be ...
... less indispensable that he should possess a vernacular knowledge of the language into which he engages to translate . Without this , his attempt to convey the sense of the original in a style sufficiently pure and idiomatic to be ...
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... less selfishness in the benefactor . The Puritans , like many others , were just patriots enough to struggle manfully for the possession of power , and to keep it carefully in their own hands when they had got possession . Tithes ...
... less selfishness in the benefactor . The Puritans , like many others , were just patriots enough to struggle manfully for the possession of power , and to keep it carefully in their own hands when they had got possession . Tithes ...
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... less tumultuous times . Every man amongst them thought for himself , and probably no ten men of them all thought alike . If the world could have been emptied of all but John Lilburne , ( it was said by Judge Jenkins , ) John would have ...
... less tumultuous times . Every man amongst them thought for himself , and probably no ten men of them all thought alike . If the world could have been emptied of all but John Lilburne , ( it was said by Judge Jenkins , ) John would have ...
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... less number more judiciously , till , after a third or fourth sifting , or refining of exactest choice , they only be left chosen who are the due number , and seem by most voices the worthiest ? ' Nor is it less singular that he ...
... less number more judiciously , till , after a third or fourth sifting , or refining of exactest choice , they only be left chosen who are the due number , and seem by most voices the worthiest ? ' Nor is it less singular that he ...
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... less critical , or add to their pastoral charge the more lucrative functions of tradesmen , surgeons , bricklayers , and carpenters .- ( C . D. 489. v . i . 169 . Burnett's edition . ) Thus would they resemble St. Paul , at least by ...
... less critical , or add to their pastoral charge the more lucrative functions of tradesmen , surgeons , bricklayers , and carpenters .- ( C . D. 489. v . i . 169 . Burnett's edition . ) Thus would they resemble St. Paul , at least by ...
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