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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... century , and there are traces of its existence amongst the landed gentry at a much earlier date . The ninth possessor of their Suffolk estates , Sir Thomas , was made a Privy Councillor and Treasurer of the Household , as a reward for ...
... century , and there are traces of its existence amongst the landed gentry at a much earlier date . The ninth possessor of their Suffolk estates , Sir Thomas , was made a Privy Councillor and Treasurer of the Household , as a reward for ...
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... centuries of misgovernment and its upas - like effects , their national character towards the end of the eighteenth century had become tainted to the core , and that , amongst its most marked and least repulsive qualities , was their ...
... centuries of misgovernment and its upas - like effects , their national character towards the end of the eighteenth century had become tainted to the core , and that , amongst its most marked and least repulsive qualities , was their ...
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... century preceding the Union were fatal to self- control and self - respect . The , most independent spirit is degraded in its own despite by pecuniary embarrassment ; and any chance visitings of remorse at having bartered a conviction ...
... century preceding the Union were fatal to self- control and self - respect . The , most independent spirit is degraded in its own despite by pecuniary embarrassment ; and any chance visitings of remorse at having bartered a conviction ...
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... century as relics and illustrations of the past . * In reference to the affair between Corry and Grattan , Lord Cornwallis writes : - Corry very unwisely made another attack on Grattan , who had rather the advantage afterwards in his ...
... century as relics and illustrations of the past . * In reference to the affair between Corry and Grattan , Lord Cornwallis writes : - Corry very unwisely made another attack on Grattan , who had rather the advantage afterwards in his ...
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... century and a half on his life and writings . In the midst of their contentions , Shakespeare's editors have , as a body , done fair justice to his works , and service to his fame . From Rowe down- wards there is not one person of name ...
... century and a half on his life and writings . In the midst of their contentions , Shakespeare's editors have , as a body , done fair justice to his works , and service to his fame . From Rowe down- wards there is not one person of name ...
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