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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... mind was coarse but not vicious , his character apprehensive but not cowardly . He was not of attractive , neither was he of con- temptible parts . He strove to the utmost to be a just King ; he was a benevolent man . On small and on ...
... mind was coarse but not vicious , his character apprehensive but not cowardly . He was not of attractive , neither was he of con- temptible parts . He strove to the utmost to be a just King ; he was a benevolent man . On small and on ...
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... mind and judgment . The very same policy is and has been the rigorous line , marked out by interest and also by duty , at many a juncture of European affairs , for the United Kingdom . Here , too , James's sympathy touched a distant ...
... mind and judgment . The very same policy is and has been the rigorous line , marked out by interest and also by duty , at many a juncture of European affairs , for the United Kingdom . Here , too , James's sympathy touched a distant ...
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... mind had been quite abstracted from Europe and the other continents into which the European was making a new way ; if , within his province as King , his eye had rested only on one dividing line , that narrow border which cuts Britain ...
... mind had been quite abstracted from Europe and the other continents into which the European was making a new way ; if , within his province as King , his eye had rested only on one dividing line , that narrow border which cuts Britain ...
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... mind , who now found himself , in 1610 , an Anglican ready made , as the mere effect of reading the fathers to meet Du Perron's incessant attacks .'- Pages 299–300 . Casaubon was writing an account not only of the present but of the ...
... mind , who now found himself , in 1610 , an Anglican ready made , as the mere effect of reading the fathers to meet Du Perron's incessant attacks .'- Pages 299–300 . Casaubon was writing an account not only of the present but of the ...
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... mind that , in principle and in practice , he stuck abso- lutely , with stubborn and almost unkind consistency , to his rule , that the Royal womankind should exercise no authority or influence over State concerns . As they both had ...
... mind that , in principle and in practice , he stuck abso- lutely , with stubborn and almost unkind consistency , to his rule , that the Royal womankind should exercise no authority or influence over State concerns . As they both had ...
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