The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 |
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... political character is to be traced in every genera- friends was really a public service at pe- tion ; and ages after the men we have been riods of public despondency : We cannot speaking of had crackled on their pyres , but profoundly ...
... political character is to be traced in every genera- friends was really a public service at pe- tion ; and ages after the men we have been riods of public despondency : We cannot speaking of had crackled on their pyres , but profoundly ...
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... political excitement harassed him , even Canning was coarse . 6 • " 6 " 6 Talk all wit would be as disagreeably monotonous as a dinner all champagne . When a man is always witty , it is a proof that he has no other quality equally con ...
... political excitement harassed him , even Canning was coarse . 6 • " 6 " 6 Talk all wit would be as disagreeably monotonous as a dinner all champagne . When a man is always witty , it is a proof that he has no other quality equally con ...
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... political and parliament- ary career , has taken again his lofty seat among the historians of Europe , resumed his old familiar studies , and become once more , instead of the leader in the councils of one of the great nations of the ...
... political and parliament- ary career , has taken again his lofty seat among the historians of Europe , resumed his old familiar studies , and become once more , instead of the leader in the councils of one of the great nations of the ...
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... political meeting . It was held at three pe- riods in the year , during some of the most holy festivals celebrated in honour of the gods . The theatre was designed to hold the people , ' the free people , of all Athens . The expense was ...
... political meeting . It was held at three pe- riods in the year , during some of the most holy festivals celebrated in honour of the gods . The theatre was designed to hold the people , ' the free people , of all Athens . The expense was ...
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... political pamphlets , some of which belonged to this period . Many more of his anonymous works have never been collected , and cannot now be identified . The attempt to avert censure by concealment was so far from succeeding , that it ...
... political pamphlets , some of which belonged to this period . Many more of his anonymous works have never been collected , and cannot now be identified . The attempt to avert censure by concealment was so far from succeeding , that it ...
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