The Quarterly Review, Volumes 248-249William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1927 |
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... century and in the war agony of the second decade of the twentieth , he bore his part . Of no outstanding brilliance , he owed his power to his sincerity of purpose . His winning personality made him friends even among his political ...
... century and in the war agony of the second decade of the twentieth , he bore his part . Of no outstanding brilliance , he owed his power to his sincerity of purpose . His winning personality made him friends even among his political ...
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... century , a century which saw the rise of a keen interest in many sports which were entirely disregarded at its commence- ment — all this is left unnoticed by Mrs Peel . Perhaps she was right to impose on herself limitations . The century ...
... century , a century which saw the rise of a keen interest in many sports which were entirely disregarded at its commence- ment — all this is left unnoticed by Mrs Peel . Perhaps she was right to impose on herself limitations . The century ...
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... century . It is her sumptuary chapters , her discussions on what things of domestic use cost and have cost , her family budgets now and at different times in the century , that will capture us . For most of us , not being Squires of ...
... century . It is her sumptuary chapters , her discussions on what things of domestic use cost and have cost , her family budgets now and at different times in the century , that will capture us . For most of us , not being Squires of ...
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... century that she writes : ' For the younger army officers in the less expensive regi- ments an income of 4007. a year all told was considered sufficient for a young couple to begin upon , while many curates and their families subsisted ...
... century that she writes : ' For the younger army officers in the less expensive regi- ments an income of 4007. a year all told was considered sufficient for a young couple to begin upon , while many curates and their families subsisted ...
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... century it is not to be denied that gentlefolk hardly thought it was ' gentlemanly ' —the word had not quite gone out then - to have the front door opened by a woman servant . Probably the strict below- stairs etiquette had its uses ...
... century it is not to be denied that gentlefolk hardly thought it was ' gentlemanly ' —the word had not quite gone out then - to have the front door opened by a woman servant . Probably the strict below- stairs etiquette had its uses ...
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