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Crown was not submerged in a universal wave of disgust , the hand that set this sordid business in motion has been forgotten . In 1815 John Leach , an elderly and ambitious K.C. who aspired , without much success , to combine the ...
Crown was not submerged in a universal wave of disgust , the hand that set this sordid business in motion has been forgotten . In 1815 John Leach , an elderly and ambitious K.C. who aspired , without much success , to combine the ...
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debt and drink , and Erskine in retirement , there was no one at hand , no one of rank and authority , to whom he could confide his troubles and who could have advised him for his own good . On the other hand , all the proceedings of ...
debt and drink , and Erskine in retirement , there was no one at hand , no one of rank and authority , to whom he could confide his troubles and who could have advised him for his own good . On the other hand , all the proceedings of ...
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At breakfast , or anywhere in his home , he hears nothing much , especially at first hand , about our great national interests or our national literature . It is only at fifteen or sixteen that he knows enough of present - day politics ...
At breakfast , or anywhere in his home , he hears nothing much , especially at first hand , about our great national interests or our national literature . It is only at fifteen or sixteen that he knows enough of present - day politics ...
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Contents
Octogenarian 2 PostVictorian Reading 3 Portugal 4 History in Blue Books 5 Wild Life Reserves | 1 |
Refugees in England | 2 |
Ancient Classics in a Modern World | 3 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 272-273 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1939 |
| Original from | University of California, Berkeley |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2020 |
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