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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... whole epoch from the commencement of the century to the outbreak of the Civil War . † Some words of Mr. Gardiner , in his last preface , describe aptly enough his own position , and we believe him to be entirely within bounds in using ...
... whole epoch from the commencement of the century to the outbreak of the Civil War . † Some words of Mr. Gardiner , in his last preface , describe aptly enough his own position , and we believe him to be entirely within bounds in using ...
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... whole confirmation in power to his conscience ; by it he had interpreted the history of his parents and of Queen Elizabeth , and his own marvellous and singular escapes from destruction , first in his mother's womb , then in the ...
... whole confirmation in power to his conscience ; by it he had interpreted the history of his parents and of Queen Elizabeth , and his own marvellous and singular escapes from destruction , first in his mother's womb , then in the ...
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... whole thing was always heavy and flat . Queen Anne might deck herself and her maids of honour for masque after masque . The King him- self felt the oppressive collapse , and would have preferred to be at his hunting - seat . His own ...
... whole thing was always heavy and flat . Queen Anne might deck herself and her maids of honour for masque after masque . The King him- self felt the oppressive collapse , and would have preferred to be at his hunting - seat . His own ...
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... whole future of British enterprise and commerce , the position of , for instance , Sir Thomas Roe at Constantinople is most noteworthy and instructive . Sir Thomas Roe , like so many of the best servants of the Crown during this reign ...
... whole future of British enterprise and commerce , the position of , for instance , Sir Thomas Roe at Constantinople is most noteworthy and instructive . Sir Thomas Roe , like so many of the best servants of the Crown during this reign ...
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... whole range of English politics the central and most fruitful study . And in relation to the study of that century , and even of times reaching much beyond its limits , one can take the reign of James and find it introduce the large ...
... whole range of English politics the central and most fruitful study . And in relation to the study of that century , and even of times reaching much beyond its limits , one can take the reign of James and find it introduce the large ...
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