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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... thought of doing anybody any good There is no record of the first laugh in the histories , but I have no doubt it was caused by some one's tripping over a stone or falling into a river or meeting with some humiliating accident ...
... thought of doing anybody any good There is no record of the first laugh in the histories , but I have no doubt it was caused by some one's tripping over a stone or falling into a river or meeting with some humiliating accident ...
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... thought that nonsense had triumphed over accident as the inspiration of comic literature ; but is not nonsense itself a kind of accident , rearranging life into unexpected and incongruous patterns ? · I do not know , indeed , whether ...
... thought that nonsense had triumphed over accident as the inspiration of comic literature ; but is not nonsense itself a kind of accident , rearranging life into unexpected and incongruous patterns ? · I do not know , indeed , whether ...
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... Thought . Get ' Jones's Note . Happy Thought . Get over before Robinson . ' Robinson's Note . Happy Thought . Get over before Jones . ' This may not be heroic , but I fancy it's true “ for a ' that . " Moreover , you've got the whole ...
... Thought . Get ' Jones's Note . Happy Thought . Get over before Robinson . ' Robinson's Note . Happy Thought . Get over before Jones . ' This may not be heroic , but I fancy it's true “ for a ' that . " Moreover , you've got the whole ...
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... thought c load - line on their ships , and enforced its Plimsoll m for the protection of the sailor against the rapacity the ship - owner . A little later a Factory Act forb the employment of children under fourteen in indust which used ...
... thought c load - line on their ships , and enforced its Plimsoll m for the protection of the sailor against the rapacity the ship - owner . A little later a Factory Act forb the employment of children under fourteen in indust which used ...
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... thought that the age of the adve turer had passed , and that thenceforth there could no more Elizabethans ; but the world still contained great continent of which the vast and fabled interi was unexplored and had not as yet become a ...
... thought that the age of the adve turer had passed , and that thenceforth there could no more Elizabethans ; but the world still contained great continent of which the vast and fabled interi was unexplored and had not as yet become a ...
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