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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... person within the circle of one age the royal blood of England by both parents . This succession drew towards it the eyes of all men , being one of the most memorable accidents that had happened a long time in the Christian world . For ...
... person within the circle of one age the royal blood of England by both parents . This succession drew towards it the eyes of all men , being one of the most memorable accidents that had happened a long time in the Christian world . For ...
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... person of the Sovereign , to the household and the Court , and , in reigns such as that of James , are peculiarly sensitive and respon- sive to Royal demeanour and Royal manners . In those about the monarch , who tried to suit ...
... person of the Sovereign , to the household and the Court , and , in reigns such as that of James , are peculiarly sensitive and respon- sive to Royal demeanour and Royal manners . In those about the monarch , who tried to suit ...
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... person ; but outside of which he could not , without manifest danger , pursue his career . In England , as abroad , one use of the favourite was to be the breaking down of the old aristocracy , and the substitution , -in England this ...
... person ; but outside of which he could not , without manifest danger , pursue his career . In England , as abroad , one use of the favourite was to be the breaking down of the old aristocracy , and the substitution , -in England this ...
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... persons of many nations , but I scarce ever met with an Ambassador but now . ' It cannot with truth be said that James's foreign policy was one of folly ; it was not even one of failure . James's relations in * Preserve me , ' he wrote ...
... persons of many nations , but I scarce ever met with an Ambassador but now . ' It cannot with truth be said that James's foreign policy was one of folly ; it was not even one of failure . James's relations in * Preserve me , ' he wrote ...
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... persons . We trust he will pardon us the observation , but we sometimes cannot , try all we will , make him agree with himself . He is complete master of the facts ; we are indebted in chief to him for our own knowledge of them ; he ...
... persons . We trust he will pardon us the observation , but we sometimes cannot , try all we will , make him agree with himself . He is complete master of the facts ; we are indebted in chief to him for our own knowledge of them ; he ...
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