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And if some of the rumours go to the very limit of imbecility , others obtain a more excusable credence by describing or predicting with ... It is perhaps going too far to speak of there having grown up of late years a cult of rumour ...
And if some of the rumours go to the very limit of imbecility , others obtain a more excusable credence by describing or predicting with ... It is perhaps going too far to speak of there having grown up of late years a cult of rumour ...
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rival , which had adopted the practice of circulating promptly any piece of international rumour or gossip it might happen to lay hands on . The result was that the old and famous agency took to transmitting unverified rumour and gossip ...
rival , which had adopted the practice of circulating promptly any piece of international rumour or gossip it might happen to lay hands on . The result was that the old and famous agency took to transmitting unverified rumour and gossip ...
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It was then that within living memory rumour first began to acquire its new power and importance in England . Some of the stories that gained universal currency in those days were so eloquent of the powers of human imagination and of ...
It was then that within living memory rumour first began to acquire its new power and importance in England . Some of the stories that gained universal currency in those days were so eloquent of the powers of human imagination and of ...
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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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