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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... labours , are so well known as to stand in need of no fresh encomium from us . We congratulate him on the successful accomplishment of the task , which for many years has so worthily employed him , and , presently , we hope to show that ...
... labours , are so well known as to stand in need of no fresh encomium from us . We congratulate him on the successful accomplishment of the task , which for many years has so worthily employed him , and , presently , we hope to show that ...
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... labours ) for the sake of his development of the history of the House which stepped into the place of that of Tudor , that the attention of Englishmen with political or scholarly leanings will be drawn to Professor von Ranke's elaborate ...
... labours ) for the sake of his development of the history of the House which stepped into the place of that of Tudor , that the attention of Englishmen with political or scholarly leanings will be drawn to Professor von Ranke's elaborate ...
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... labours ; the courtly eloquence of the French pulpit began with Berulle . The rooted , substantial , effective resistance , which this move- ment regularly encountered whenever it attempted to affect Britain , is a most , we take it to ...
... labours ; the courtly eloquence of the French pulpit began with Berulle . The rooted , substantial , effective resistance , which this move- ment regularly encountered whenever it attempted to affect Britain , is a most , we take it to ...
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... had rendered Jamaica on the whole less adapted to become a centre of civilization , labour , and com- merce , than they had found it . So weak indeed was their rule , SO so feeble their grasp , that not even the divided Jamaica . 45.
... had rendered Jamaica on the whole less adapted to become a centre of civilization , labour , and com- merce , than they had found it . So weak indeed was their rule , SO so feeble their grasp , that not even the divided Jamaica . 45.
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... labour was not less practicable for English- men in Jamaica than at home . And truly , in a land where the highest thermometric range , even on the heated coast level , rarely exceeds 90 ° , and where amid the uplands of the interior ...
... labour was not less practicable for English- men in Jamaica than at home . And truly , in a land where the highest thermometric range , even on the heated coast level , rarely exceeds 90 ° , and where amid the uplands of the interior ...
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