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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... remarkable one . Without lofty ambition or shining talents , without being a hero , an orator , or a statesman of the first class , he filled effectively the most prominent place on four conspicuous stages at four of the most trying ...
... remarkable one . Without lofty ambition or shining talents , without being a hero , an orator , or a statesman of the first class , he filled effectively the most prominent place on four conspicuous stages at four of the most trying ...
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... remarkable feature of this sitting was the entry of Grattan , who had been out of parliament since 1797. He had been elected for Wicklow while the debate was proceeding . The return was signed between twelve and one of that very morning ...
... remarkable feature of this sitting was the entry of Grattan , who had been out of parliament since 1797. He had been elected for Wicklow while the debate was proceeding . The return was signed between twelve and one of that very morning ...
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... remarkable in the Papal aggression . The country from one end to the other was in a ferment . The insult was intolerable . Something ' it would do . But to enforce the existing though almost obsolete laws it was urged would be unfair ...
... remarkable in the Papal aggression . The country from one end to the other was in a ferment . The insult was intolerable . Something ' it would do . But to enforce the existing though almost obsolete laws it was urged would be unfair ...
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... remarkable for their straightforwardness and simplicity - nevertheless the elec- tion of a Pope could not be managed without a good deal of dexterity and address . The first object of every leader of a faction is to obtain the command ...
... remarkable for their straightforwardness and simplicity - nevertheless the elec- tion of a Pope could not be managed without a good deal of dexterity and address . The first object of every leader of a faction is to obtain the command ...
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... remarkable , as an indication of his real sentiments or of his prudence , that in the Historico - Ecclesias- tical Dictionary , ' which undoubtedly was planned and super- intended by him , and the first volume of which probably had an ...
... remarkable , as an indication of his real sentiments or of his prudence , that in the Historico - Ecclesias- tical Dictionary , ' which undoubtedly was planned and super- intended by him , and the first volume of which probably had an ...
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