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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... Nature and Time to make that continuum , which was at first but contiguum . . Those mixtures , which are at the first troubled , grow after clear and settled by the benefit of rest and time .'- Bacon's Letters and Life , vol . iii . p ...
... Nature and Time to make that continuum , which was at first but contiguum . . Those mixtures , which are at the first troubled , grow after clear and settled by the benefit of rest and time .'- Bacon's Letters and Life , vol . iii . p ...
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... natural courage which had distinguished both his house and the house which had preceded it in England , had died in him from the terrible shock of the murder of Rizzio . He had not the inestimable faculty to a king , of winning or of ...
... natural courage which had distinguished both his house and the house which had preceded it in England , had died in him from the terrible shock of the murder of Rizzio . He had not the inestimable faculty to a king , of winning or of ...
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... natural defects . He was an untiring sportsman ; and he was as indefatigable in his exertions to keep up with the ideas and the projects , wherever new ones were started , in the wide world of politics . No English Sovereign for ...
... natural defects . He was an untiring sportsman ; and he was as indefatigable in his exertions to keep up with the ideas and the projects , wherever new ones were started , in the wide world of politics . No English Sovereign for ...
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... natural and tremendous impetus ; his own business he took to be to keep the roads clear ; to make a peace , or to get , if not a peace , a truce ; to gain , by all means , time . So through the whole reign , from the very beginning to ...
... natural and tremendous impetus ; his own business he took to be to keep the roads clear ; to make a peace , or to get , if not a peace , a truce ; to gain , by all means , time . So through the whole reign , from the very beginning to ...
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... nature of things and their necessary . consequences ; that he was just as slow and circumspect in the execu- tion as he was lively and expeditious in the discussion of measures ; that he knew how to moderate his choleric temperament by ...
... nature of things and their necessary . consequences ; that he was just as slow and circumspect in the execu- tion as he was lively and expeditious in the discussion of measures ; that he knew how to moderate his choleric temperament by ...
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