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Thus from the opening to the close of a long career Lord Lansdowne played his great and honourable part , never deflected by any ignoble motive from the strait path of rectitude and patriotism . High intellectual capacity was in him ...
Thus from the opening to the close of a long career Lord Lansdowne played his great and honourable part , never deflected by any ignoble motive from the strait path of rectitude and patriotism . High intellectual capacity was in him ...
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Abstention never did any good in ancient Athens , we are told , it was a punishable offence for a free man to neglect to exercise his rights of citizenship . What those who would refrain from voting seem unable sufficiently to realise ...
Abstention never did any good in ancient Athens , we are told , it was a punishable offence for a free man to neglect to exercise his rights of citizenship . What those who would refrain from voting seem unable sufficiently to realise ...
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He was never a good , though always a keen , golfer , but there was scarcely any other , however excellent a putter , whom I would rather see , if he were my partner in a foursome , with a putt of just the missable length for the match ...
He was never a good , though always a keen , golfer , but there was scarcely any other , however excellent a putter , whom I would rather see , if he were my partner in a foursome , with a putt of just the missable length for the match ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 254 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1930 |
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