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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... word to a larger , sprightlier society into which he himself comparatively seldom entered , the change he brought in was a most distinctly bad one in morals as well as in manners . And then , that enthusiasm which had in Elizabeth's ...
... word to a larger , sprightlier society into which he himself comparatively seldom entered , the change he brought in was a most distinctly bad one in morals as well as in manners . And then , that enthusiasm which had in Elizabeth's ...
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... word - it was before Elizabeth's death - to Scotland , that a principal place in his affections and his prayers was reserved for the son of Mary Stewart . With a tolerant Pope , James was disposed to toleration . When , shortly after ...
... word - it was before Elizabeth's death - to Scotland , that a principal place in his affections and his prayers was reserved for the son of Mary Stewart . With a tolerant Pope , James was disposed to toleration . When , shortly after ...
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... word . To the energy of Cromwell were due more than 2000 settlers , most of them labouring men , sent out to subdue and replenish the soil ; to the very dissimilar administration of Charles II . Jamaica owed a still more important ...
... word . To the energy of Cromwell were due more than 2000 settlers , most of them labouring men , sent out to subdue and replenish the soil ; to the very dissimilar administration of Charles II . Jamaica owed a still more important ...
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... word , the best qualified by position , education , and social accomplish- ments to have remedied , or at least mitigated , the evils of the time , ) absenteeism was for a century and more , the rule , residence the rare exception ...
... word , the best qualified by position , education , and social accomplish- ments to have remedied , or at least mitigated , the evils of the time , ) absenteeism was for a century and more , the rule , residence the rare exception ...
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... word , for the Jamaica of our day . For though , to the credit of the island be it said , there are few West Indian Colonies where the prejudices of colour , and the barriers of caste , are less regarded , where merit , under whatever ...
... word , for the Jamaica of our day . For though , to the credit of the island be it said , there are few West Indian Colonies where the prejudices of colour , and the barriers of caste , are less regarded , where merit , under whatever ...
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