The Quarterly Review, Volume 171William 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, 1890 |
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... French , Italian , and German , who lived with the men of letters of his time both in England and in France , was shaky in points of grammar ; and his teaching was rather rhetorical than logical , had a tinge of absurdity in it , and ...
... French , Italian , and German , who lived with the men of letters of his time both in England and in France , was shaky in points of grammar ; and his teaching was rather rhetorical than logical , had a tinge of absurdity in it , and ...
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... French cavalry , to their enduring glory , made their last heroic effort . As the infantry recoiled , their regiments dashed against the Prussian foot and guns , bent upon forcing a road out to the west . In vain . The gallant fellows ...
... French cavalry , to their enduring glory , made their last heroic effort . As the infantry recoiled , their regiments dashed against the Prussian foot and guns , bent upon forcing a road out to the west . In vain . The gallant fellows ...
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... way he had sounded the disposition of South Germany . He had felt the pulse of the whole nation , and he knew that the French War , if it resulted C in a German triumph , must alter the existing in 38 The Emperor Frederick :
... way he had sounded the disposition of South Germany . He had felt the pulse of the whole nation , and he knew that the French War , if it resulted C in a German triumph , must alter the existing in 38 The Emperor Frederick :
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... French learned by way of England a variety of things about our army which , with greater propriety , would have remained concealed . ' Here , again , Freytag is endeavouring to support Prince Bismarck's Memorial through thick and thin ...
... French learned by way of England a variety of things about our army which , with greater propriety , would have remained concealed . ' Here , again , Freytag is endeavouring to support Prince Bismarck's Memorial through thick and thin ...
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... French Realism ? Are we to go back as far as Diderot , the painter of a world of rascaldom , and herald of the great secret , as he deemed it , that good and evil are , like words in the philosophy of Bacon , the ' counters of wise men ...
... French Realism ? Are we to go back as far as Diderot , the painter of a world of rascaldom , and herald of the great secret , as he deemed it , that good and evil are , like words in the philosophy of Bacon , the ' counters of wise men ...
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