The Quarterly Review, Volumes 241-242William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1924 |
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... cause to regret their want of foresight . Foreign nations pursue the opposite course . Take , for instance , France and Germany . France has never let go of her rural industries . Apart from her peasant pro- prietors , she employs some ...
... cause to regret their want of foresight . Foreign nations pursue the opposite course . Take , for instance , France and Germany . France has never let go of her rural industries . Apart from her peasant pro- prietors , she employs some ...
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... cause for such apprehension but the pessimist will have it that the taste for humou is a taste of educated and simple people , and tha never in history has the world been so full of half educated or nearly - educated people , and ...
... cause for such apprehension but the pessimist will have it that the taste for humou is a taste of educated and simple people , and tha never in history has the world been so full of half educated or nearly - educated people , and ...
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... cause of his laughter . I am not o of those who hold that tradition should go unchalleng or that the backward - looking satirists are right in the belief that , though there may have been a Golden A in the past , there is no hope of a ...
... cause of his laughter . I am not o of those who hold that tradition should go unchalleng or that the backward - looking satirists are right in the belief that , though there may have been a Golden A in the past , there is no hope of a ...
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... cause to victory ; but it must be remembered that , wherever humour goes , it takes with it human nature as its fellow , and that even the sublimest cause must fail if it attempts to hurry forward where human nature either will not or ...
... cause to victory ; but it must be remembered that , wherever humour goes , it takes with it human nature as its fellow , and that even the sublimest cause must fail if it attempts to hurry forward where human nature either will not or ...
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... causes , might quite possibly have manifested itself in Europe at the time ip of the Boer war ; the spirit was not wanting ... cause for the decline of Venetian commerce , and , by a curious coincidence , for the rise and expansion of ...
... causes , might quite possibly have manifested itself in Europe at the time ip of the Boer war ; the spirit was not wanting ... cause for the decline of Venetian commerce , and , by a curious coincidence , for the rise and expansion of ...
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