The Quarterly Review, Volume 139William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1875 |
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... fact , though here it would be hard to find a more accu- rate historian , as in relation to the grouping together and sum- ming up of facts ) with a species of unquestioning faith , for which , we think , there is no precedent in the ...
... fact , though here it would be hard to find a more accu- rate historian , as in relation to the grouping together and sum- ming up of facts ) with a species of unquestioning faith , for which , we think , there is no precedent in the ...
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... facts ; we are indebted in chief to him for our own knowledge of them ; he deserves the greatest credit ,. and he has our sincerest gratitude for his most laborious , exact , and candidly - recorded researches : but surely his facts ...
... facts ; we are indebted in chief to him for our own knowledge of them ; he deserves the greatest credit ,. and he has our sincerest gratitude for his most laborious , exact , and candidly - recorded researches : but surely his facts ...
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... fact , in James's time was there a final breach with Spain made . And even Gondomar's re - appearance in London was hinted at to the end . But his practical measures in view of the complete rupture with Spain were admirable . He saw the ...
... fact , in James's time was there a final breach with Spain made . And even Gondomar's re - appearance in London was hinted at to the end . But his practical measures in view of the complete rupture with Spain were admirable . He saw the ...
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... , each in turn , con- tributed their share to the work , till the popular Jamaican ideal bears for the most no truer resemblance to the Jamaica of fact , than than a landscape viewed alternately through a prism and a Jamaica . 41.
... , each in turn , con- tributed their share to the work , till the popular Jamaican ideal bears for the most no truer resemblance to the Jamaica of fact , than than a landscape viewed alternately through a prism and a Jamaica . 41.
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... fact : and the settlers soon found themselves compelled to restrict their share of the task before them within the limits allotted by tropical laws , and to make over the remainder to a race better adapted than their own to the climatic ...
... fact : and the settlers soon found themselves compelled to restrict their share of the task before them within the limits allotted by tropical laws , and to make over the remainder to a race better adapted than their own to the climatic ...
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