The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William 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 John Murray, 1859 |
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... Believe me , & c . , GEORGE ROSE . " 2 In one or two instances Mr. Ross has been seduced into a hardly allowable digression , as in telling us , apropos of an allu- sion to Lord Carhampton : - ' Lord Carhampton spent the latter years of ...
... Believe me , & c . , GEORGE ROSE . " 2 In one or two instances Mr. Ross has been seduced into a hardly allowable digression , as in telling us , apropos of an allu- sion to Lord Carhampton : - ' Lord Carhampton spent the latter years of ...
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... believe Lord T. and Mr. P. ever had any quarrel , and think that the former resigned because they would not dissolve the Parliament . I may however be mistaken in this : at present they are apparently friends . ' The same tone prevails ...
... believe Lord T. and Mr. P. ever had any quarrel , and think that the former resigned because they would not dissolve the Parliament . I may however be mistaken in this : at present they are apparently friends . ' The same tone prevails ...
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... believe ambition to be the last infirmity of noble minds ; because ( as one poet has said ) the innate tendency of our being is to strive upwards and onwards ; because , in the stirring words of another , — ' One glorious hour of ...
... believe ambition to be the last infirmity of noble minds ; because ( as one poet has said ) the innate tendency of our being is to strive upwards and onwards ; because , in the stirring words of another , — ' One glorious hour of ...
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... believe , the safer course , very much , it appears , to the wonder and consternation of his allies . ' To attack , ' says Mr. Mill , with a handful of infantry , and with- out cannon , the whole of Tippoo's army , in a fortified camp ...
... believe , the safer course , very much , it appears , to the wonder and consternation of his allies . ' To attack , ' says Mr. Mill , with a handful of infantry , and with- out cannon , the whole of Tippoo's army , in a fortified camp ...
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... believe , be impossible to excite any popular commotion against it in any part of the kingdom , except in Dublin . ' In Dublin a good deal of commotion was excited , especially by the Bar . The real difficulty , however , lay in ...
... believe , be impossible to excite any popular commotion against it in any part of the kingdom , except in Dublin . ' In Dublin a good deal of commotion was excited , especially by the Bar . The real difficulty , however , lay in ...
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