The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William 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, 1859 - English literature |
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... France , and liking better to talk about it , I know not . The cavalry is very fine ; the infantry exactly like the Hessian , only taller and better set up , but much slower in their move- ments . Their manœuvres were such as the worst ...
... France , and liking better to talk about it , I know not . The cavalry is very fine ; the infantry exactly like the Hessian , only taller and better set up , but much slower in their move- ments . Their manœuvres were such as the worst ...
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... France . The brave and loyal Charlemont , the Irish Lafayette , whose army of volunteers is morally as well as materially strengthened by Roman Catholics , will record a willing and conscientious vote against their admission to ...
... France . The brave and loyal Charlemont , the Irish Lafayette , whose army of volunteers is morally as well as materially strengthened by Roman Catholics , will record a willing and conscientious vote against their admission to ...
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... France . Everywhere starting from the same point of connexion with the church , the drama made unequal progress in each country , moving always by like steps . The monks made use of the instinct of mimicry which they found blended among ...
... France . Everywhere starting from the same point of connexion with the church , the drama made unequal progress in each country , moving always by like steps . The monks made use of the instinct of mimicry which they found blended among ...
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... France , thereby implying that this jurisdiction had been at some time conferred by some other authority , probably that of election by their fellow - countrymen , -for it was provided that , in case of vacancy , the eldest of the ...
... France , thereby implying that this jurisdiction had been at some time conferred by some other authority , probably that of election by their fellow - countrymen , -for it was provided that , in case of vacancy , the eldest of the ...
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... France , however despotic at home , protected not only the inte- rests but the liberties of its subjects settled abroad . The principle of the isolation of Frenchmen , of all classes , from the action of foreign tribunals , is prominent ...
... France , however despotic at home , protected not only the inte- rests but the liberties of its subjects settled abroad . The principle of the isolation of Frenchmen , of all classes , from the action of foreign tribunals , is prominent ...
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Page 227 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
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Page 20 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 220 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Page 178 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Page 49 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 234 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Page 43 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
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Page 20 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.