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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... opinion ( April , 1790 ) on this subject is thus stated : - In regard to the military arrangement , I am clearly of opinion that the European troops should all belong to the King , for experience has shown that the Company cannot keep ...
... opinion ( April , 1790 ) on this subject is thus stated : - In regard to the military arrangement , I am clearly of opinion that the European troops should all belong to the King , for experience has shown that the Company cannot keep ...
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... opinion different both from your Lordship and me on the question of perpetuity , and feeling that there was much respect due to the opinion and authority of Mr. Shore , I thought it indispensably necessary both that the measure must ...
... opinion different both from your Lordship and me on the question of perpetuity , and feeling that there was much respect due to the opinion and authority of Mr. Shore , I thought it indispensably necessary both that the measure must ...
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... opinion as to the policy to be adopted in Hindostan . What , then , can be more unfair than to judge the Indian legislator or reformer of 1793 by the brighter , though still clouded and imperfect , lights of 1858 ? It is surely enough ...
... opinion as to the policy to be adopted in Hindostan . What , then , can be more unfair than to judge the Indian legislator or reformer of 1793 by the brighter , though still clouded and imperfect , lights of 1858 ? It is surely enough ...
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... opinion is in your favour . ' 6 The Chancellor's opposition rendered it impossible for the Lord - Lieutenant and Secretary to go further ; † and it is clear from the whole tenor of their communications that they did not . The Roman ...
... opinion is in your favour . ' 6 The Chancellor's opposition rendered it impossible for the Lord - Lieutenant and Secretary to go further ; † and it is clear from the whole tenor of their communications that they did not . The Roman ...
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... opinion seem to know that their fighting scheme is neither more nor less than a modified version of Bobadil's . We would challenge twenty of the enemy ; they could not in honour refuse . Well , we would kill them ! challenge twenty more ...
... opinion seem to know that their fighting scheme is neither more nor less than a modified version of Bobadil's . We would challenge twenty of the enemy ; they could not in honour refuse . Well , we would kill them ! challenge twenty more ...
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