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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... habits . Times of peace and plenty are trying times for a Court . The whole general community , a thoughtless householder , not seem- ing in want of stores , leaves its finest and choicest fruits on the tree and in the sun . Through the ...
... habits . Times of peace and plenty are trying times for a Court . The whole general community , a thoughtless householder , not seem- ing in want of stores , leaves its finest and choicest fruits on the tree and in the sun . Through the ...
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... habit of making small slips to save himself from grave falls . Here he reminds us of the lines of one of his own states- men and poets . They were written in Elizabeth's time , or James might have suggested to Sir John Davies the quaint ...
... habit of making small slips to save himself from grave falls . Here he reminds us of the lines of one of his own states- men and poets . They were written in Elizabeth's time , or James might have suggested to Sir John Davies the quaint ...
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... habits of brigandage and murder that they had implanted among these their successors by ex- ample and precept , they had rendered Jamaica on the whole less adapted to become a centre of civilization , labour , and com- merce , than they ...
... habits of brigandage and murder that they had implanted among these their successors by ex- ample and precept , they had rendered Jamaica on the whole less adapted to become a centre of civilization , labour , and com- merce , than they ...
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... habit of self - government , Parliamentary tact , and legislative discretion , the honourable heirlooms of the early colonists , all were lost ; and when in 1823 the first serious intimations of the anti - slavery movement , already ...
... habit of self - government , Parliamentary tact , and legislative discretion , the honourable heirlooms of the early colonists , all were lost ; and when in 1823 the first serious intimations of the anti - slavery movement , already ...
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... and has been for generations past the abode of English habits , English taste , and English comfort . The large , irregular , verandah - girt dwelling- e ; itself , itself , often not a quarter of a mile distant 56 Jamaica .
... and has been for generations past the abode of English habits , English taste , and English comfort . The large , irregular , verandah - girt dwelling- e ; itself , itself , often not a quarter of a mile distant 56 Jamaica .
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