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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... eye would have taken in the whole idea at a glance ; but the unity of the style and the simplicity of the plan would have produced an effect of grandeur hardly to be equalled . " -P . 47 . The College precincts , as may be seen by a ...
... eye would have taken in the whole idea at a glance ; but the unity of the style and the simplicity of the plan would have produced an effect of grandeur hardly to be equalled . " -P . 47 . The College precincts , as may be seen by a ...
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... eye - witness of some of the great events which regenerated Germany under the supremacy of the House of Hohenzollern . Freytag's ' Reminiscences ' of the Crown Prince , who led the first united German army to victory , and who , as ...
... eye - witness of some of the great events which regenerated Germany under the supremacy of the House of Hohenzollern . Freytag's ' Reminiscences ' of the Crown Prince , who led the first united German army to victory , and who , as ...
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... eye and ear . Till past twelve the battle raged before our eyes with unabated fury . The mist had lifted ; the landscape lay clear and bright before us in the hot light of the sun . noon the two German wings joined hands behind the ...
... eye and ear . Till past twelve the battle raged before our eyes with unabated fury . The mist had lifted ; the landscape lay clear and bright before us in the hot light of the sun . noon the two German wings joined hands behind the ...
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... eye and in emphatic voice , ' No ! he must be Emperor . ' It was not till some days later that the Crown Prince opened the plan to the Chancellor . Subsequently - at Rheims , after the battle of Sedan - the Crown Prince told Freytag ...
... eye and in emphatic voice , ' No ! he must be Emperor . ' It was not till some days later that the Crown Prince opened the plan to the Chancellor . Subsequently - at Rheims , after the battle of Sedan - the Crown Prince told Freytag ...
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... eye for detail might qualify him to be the first ; it would not argue his possession of the second . The deference which a man of thirty - five shows to the ripe experience of a Blumenthal is no symptom of military incapacity . On the ...
... eye for detail might qualify him to be the first ; it would not argue his possession of the second . The deference which a man of thirty - five shows to the ripe experience of a Blumenthal is no symptom of military incapacity . On the ...
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