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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... 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 glance at Mr ...
... 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 glance at Mr ...
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... taken for a fop instead of a scholar , and for a sentimentalist instead of a reformer far more practical than his critics . He stimulated scholars , but did not touch louts and dunces . But if not a great teacher , Hawtrey was a man of ...
... taken for a fop instead of a scholar , and for a sentimentalist instead of a reformer far more practical than his critics . He stimulated scholars , but did not touch louts and dunces . But if not a great teacher , Hawtrey was a man of ...
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... taken of the housing of the books , and to increase their number . Provosts Savile and Wotton did what could be done in their time to add to the Library , and considerable additions must have been made at different times during the ...
... taken of the housing of the books , and to increase their number . Provosts Savile and Wotton did what could be done in their time to add to the Library , and considerable additions must have been made at different times during the ...
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... taken in the establishment of the German Empire . It was he who first adopted the idea of embodying the unity of Germany in the Imperial dignity ; he who won over the sceptical Bismarck ; he who successfully combated the scruples of ...
... taken in the establishment of the German Empire . It was he who first adopted the idea of embodying the unity of Germany in the Imperial dignity ; he who won over the sceptical Bismarck ; he who successfully combated the scruples of ...
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... taken the idea into favourable consideration . In both these chronological points Freytag confirms the memorial of Prince Bismarck , in which the latter -disputes the detailed accuracy of the Emperor's Diary . But the evidence of ...
... taken the idea into favourable consideration . In both these chronological points Freytag confirms the memorial of Prince Bismarck , in which the latter -disputes the detailed accuracy of the Emperor's Diary . But the evidence of ...
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