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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... present , to replace ( for the veriest accidents often cast such statues from their pedestals ) the shattered fragments of effigies of deserving , though unpopular , monarchs and politicians back in their historic positions and in the ...
... present , to replace ( for the veriest accidents often cast such statues from their pedestals ) the shattered fragments of effigies of deserving , though unpopular , monarchs and politicians back in their historic positions and in the ...
Page 45
... present con- dition of Jamaica , as contrasted with its past , affords the clearest proof . Insular history has this advantage , that it presents us with the working out of social and political problems , free to a great extent from the ...
... present con- dition of Jamaica , as contrasted with its past , affords the clearest proof . Insular history has this advantage , that it presents us with the working out of social and political problems , free to a great extent from the ...
Page 52
... present and impending , yet obsti- nately refused those suggested at home . It was a dark hour for Jamaica , to be followed by a darker still . The questionable merit of having precipitated the inevitable crisis belongs to Mr. Bright ...
... present and impending , yet obsti- nately refused those suggested at home . It was a dark hour for Jamaica , to be followed by a darker still . The questionable merit of having precipitated the inevitable crisis belongs to Mr. Bright ...
Page 54
... present , the medical and the educational departments excepted , the former of which seems somewhat wanting in efficiency as the latter in direction , there is little to cavil at in the present order of things ; much to praise ...
... present , the medical and the educational departments excepted , the former of which seems somewhat wanting in efficiency as the latter in direction , there is little to cavil at in the present order of things ; much to praise ...
Page 60
... present well - being only , but of large and justly - grounded hope . For , as quitting Estates and Penns , we drive rapidly along the smooth - kept road by hill and dale , stream and forest , little white- washed cottages , wattled ...
... present well - being only , but of large and justly - grounded hope . For , as quitting Estates and Penns , we drive rapidly along the smooth - kept road by hill and dale , stream and forest , little white- washed cottages , wattled ...
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