The Quarterly Review, Volume 30William 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, 1824 |
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... prisoners to the males , is not less than as three to two ? The only solution appears to be the obvious one , that women of evil propensities are not drawn off from society like the ruffian part of the male population , but find their ...
... prisoners to the males , is not less than as three to two ? The only solution appears to be the obvious one , that women of evil propensities are not drawn off from society like the ruffian part of the male population , but find their ...
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... prisoner by the enemy , just at the period when our young guardsman opens his military career . 6 It was in the month of June , 1809 , that the first of these writers , then a subaltern officer of infantry , embarked at Portsmouth to ...
... prisoner by the enemy , just at the period when our young guardsman opens his military career . 6 It was in the month of June , 1809 , that the first of these writers , then a subaltern officer of infantry , embarked at Portsmouth to ...
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... prisons , for their amusement , and some of the officers would sit for hours in the convent parlours , talking with the nuns , whom a double row of thick gratings , so contrived that you could only shake hands in the space between the ...
... prisons , for their amusement , and some of the officers would sit for hours in the convent parlours , talking with the nuns , whom a double row of thick gratings , so contrived that you could only shake hands in the space between the ...
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... prisoners , one of whom had sabre cuts on the cheek and shoulder , passed me while I was contemplating this scene . Do you recollect , " said I , " friend , what took place here ? " " Yes , sir ; they shewed us a front here , and we ...
... prisoners , one of whom had sabre cuts on the cheek and shoulder , passed me while I was contemplating this scene . Do you recollect , " said I , " friend , what took place here ? " " Yes , sir ; they shewed us a front here , and we ...
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... prisoners in Eng- land ; his professional hopes and prospects blasted , and the brightest ` season of his life chilled by poverty , and consumed by inaction .'- pp . 143-146 . Our author was afterwards present at the first and ...
... prisoners in Eng- land ; his professional hopes and prospects blasted , and the brightest ` season of his life chilled by poverty , and consumed by inaction .'- pp . 143-146 . Our author was afterwards present at the first and ...
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