The Quarterly Review, Volume 247John Murray, 1926 |
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Page 104
... living reality . Fair to See , ' ' Mine is Three books of his I The two former in my I had suffered sore disappointment with one old Scottish friend , Whyte Melville , I would now make trial of another , Lawrence Lockhart . remembered ...
... living reality . Fair to See , ' ' Mine is Three books of his I The two former in my I had suffered sore disappointment with one old Scottish friend , Whyte Melville , I would now make trial of another , Lawrence Lockhart . remembered ...
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... living stuff for his stories . He did what he could- voluminously . There was one , however , whom I think that Smedley might have considered - Bulwer Lytton . Lytton was not consistently a follower of Scott . There scarce was a god in ...
... living stuff for his stories . He did what he could- voluminously . There was one , however , whom I think that Smedley might have considered - Bulwer Lytton . Lytton was not consistently a follower of Scott . There scarce was a god in ...
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... living truth of the scenes that Charles O'Malley fought through , and Lever's description of Waterloo has gained high marks for its accuracy . For the purposes of Tom Burke ' he visited the chief battlefields on the Continent and sought ...
... living truth of the scenes that Charles O'Malley fought through , and Lever's description of Waterloo has gained high marks for its accuracy . For the purposes of Tom Burke ' he visited the chief battlefields on the Continent and sought ...
Page 148
... living with parents who still speak a foreign language , acquiring in the elementary schools the merest smattering of Eng- lish , which is bound to become vitiated by contact with uneducated Irish , Americanised Italian , Yiddish and ...
... living with parents who still speak a foreign language , acquiring in the elementary schools the merest smattering of Eng- lish , which is bound to become vitiated by contact with uneducated Irish , Americanised Italian , Yiddish and ...
Page 158
... us not say ignorant , for that is to arrogate too much to Western learning , but untouched by the culture of Europe , so long must the male in India regard himself as living two lives - the life of 158 ASIA AND THE BOLSHEVISTS.
... us not say ignorant , for that is to arrogate too much to Western learning , but untouched by the culture of Europe , so long must the male in India regard himself as living two lives - the life of 158 ASIA AND THE BOLSHEVISTS.
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Page 207 - Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article: of sending and receiving ambassadors: entering into treaties and alliances: provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any...
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