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Then came the last letter , Nov. 5 , 1784 , ' Are you sick , or are you sullen ? ' A paragraph is left out , which obviously reiterates the previous charge of affected discontent and vain complaint . Boswell instantly wrote two as kind ...
Then came the last letter , Nov. 5 , 1784 , ' Are you sick , or are you sullen ? ' A paragraph is left out , which obviously reiterates the previous charge of affected discontent and vain complaint . Boswell instantly wrote two as kind ...
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This final and scholarly book contains , as well , the letters to Johnson and a hundred others not previously printed ; but omits those to Erskine . The letters to Temple begin with the year 1758 , when Boswell was eighteen years old ...
This final and scholarly book contains , as well , the letters to Johnson and a hundred others not previously printed ; but omits those to Erskine . The letters to Temple begin with the year 1758 , when Boswell was eighteen years old ...
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The estimate made in 1896 was that from 40 to 48 paying letters per minute would be the capacity of the cable . When laid , the cable proved to have a capacity of 80 letters a minute in each direction ( duplex ) ; and after 1911 the ...
The estimate made in 1896 was that from 40 to 48 paying letters per minute would be the capacity of the cable . When laid , the cable proved to have a capacity of 80 letters a minute in each direction ( duplex ) ; and after 1911 the ...
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Contents
THE KAISER AFTER TWENTYFIVE YEARS | 1 |
Who was Merlin | 7 |
Macphail | 42 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 253 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1929 |
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