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Three - quarters of a century ago that shrewd judge of current topics , Walter Bagehot , put the matter clearly , if somewhat unkindly , into the nutshell phrase , French is the patois of Europe , while English is the language of the ...
Three - quarters of a century ago that shrewd judge of current topics , Walter Bagehot , put the matter clearly , if somewhat unkindly , into the nutshell phrase , French is the patois of Europe , while English is the language of the ...
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It is English . ' He adds that on an Italian steamer he was seated at a table with two doctors , an Italian and an Austrian , who talked medical ' shop ' - in English . On a later occasion , on a Danish boat he heard a Frenchwoman and a ...
It is English . ' He adds that on an Italian steamer he was seated at a table with two doctors , an Italian and an Austrian , who talked medical ' shop ' - in English . On a later occasion , on a Danish boat he heard a Frenchwoman and a ...
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India , where of course English , since Macaulay's educational reforms , has spread with unexampled swiftness , we come to the most wide - awake and progressive of Oriental peoples , the Japanese , who from very early days adopted our ...
India , where of course English , since Macaulay's educational reforms , has spread with unexampled swiftness , we come to the most wide - awake and progressive of Oriental peoples , the Japanese , who from very early days adopted our ...
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Contents
JANUARY | 1 |
Industrial Development in Soviet Russia | 2 |
Some Philosophies in English Poetry | 3 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 264-265 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1935 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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