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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... evil times : How happy should I be if I could bring one contented thought to your Majesty , to whom I have been devoted from your infancy . ' Had England taken up in earnest and in full the cause of the Elector Palatine , Sir Thomas Roe ...
... evil times : How happy should I be if I could bring one contented thought to your Majesty , to whom I have been devoted from your infancy . ' Had England taken up in earnest and in full the cause of the Elector Palatine , Sir Thomas Roe ...
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... evil , the growth of a reckless and mutinous military spirit , be got under restraint ? Was any scheme practicable - so in its full import the enquiry would frame itself - for a European balance of power , in which the old and the new ...
... evil , the growth of a reckless and mutinous military spirit , be got under restraint ? Was any scheme practicable - so in its full import the enquiry would frame itself - for a European balance of power , in which the old and the new ...
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... evil , set in a sea - margin of sharks , reefs , and pirates ; such , or nearly , was the Jamaica of the Lichfield Doctor and his compeers . Part , and not an in- considerable one , of the above description , may be still read in ...
... evil , set in a sea - margin of sharks , reefs , and pirates ; such , or nearly , was the Jamaica of the Lichfield Doctor and his compeers . Part , and not an in- considerable one , of the above description , may be still read in ...
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... evil name , though enlisted in the cause of order . Jamaica was now an English possession , and no time was lost in rendering it an English colony in the fullest sense of the word . To the energy of Cromwell were due more than 2000 ...
... evil name , though enlisted in the cause of order . Jamaica was now an English possession , and no time was lost in rendering it an English colony in the fullest sense of the word . To the energy of Cromwell were due more than 2000 ...
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... evil conditions would not , as is now admitted , have granted immunity to European labour under a West - Indian sun ; and the experiments of Scotch and Irish immigration scarce thirty years since , of Mr. Myers and his German labourers ...
... evil conditions would not , as is now admitted , have granted immunity to European labour under a West - Indian sun ; and the experiments of Scotch and Irish immigration scarce thirty years since , of Mr. Myers and his German labourers ...
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