The Quarterly Review, Volumes 246-247William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1926 - English literature |
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... declared that ' real progress consists in learning how better to employ energy - how better to effect its transformation . ' This is profoundly true , and yet how very limited ! What is wealth without health ? No doubt the curse of the ...
... declared that ' real progress consists in learning how better to employ energy - how better to effect its transformation . ' This is profoundly true , and yet how very limited ! What is wealth without health ? No doubt the curse of the ...
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... declare that he had once called up the spirit of Homer and learnt from the ghostly lips of the poet himself in which of the seven cities he had really been born . Some suspicion , however , was cast on the story by the circum- stance ...
... declare that he had once called up the spirit of Homer and learnt from the ghostly lips of the poet himself in which of the seven cities he had really been born . Some suspicion , however , was cast on the story by the circum- stance ...
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... declared that nineteen out of every twenty English women had illegitimate children before marriage , and yet he fawned on and flattered George III and presented a laurel crown to George IV when he landed at Kingstown in 1821. Sir James ...
... declared that nineteen out of every twenty English women had illegitimate children before marriage , and yet he fawned on and flattered George III and presented a laurel crown to George IV when he landed at Kingstown in 1821. Sir James ...
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... declared that he lived for old books , old wines , old customs , and old friends , ' and who a few years earlier had given nineteen guineas for one of the only two known copies of that collection of ' Merry Tales and Quicke Answers ...
... declared that he lived for old books , old wines , old customs , and old friends , ' and who a few years earlier had given nineteen guineas for one of the only two known copies of that collection of ' Merry Tales and Quicke Answers ...
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... declared that Count Bethlen had failed hopelessly , and in addition had dragged Hungary in the ashes of humiliation by agree- ing to League of Nations control . At this crisis Count Bethlen made a speech at a great open - air meeting in ...
... declared that Count Bethlen had failed hopelessly , and in addition had dragged Hungary in the ashes of humiliation by agree- ing to League of Nations control . At this crisis Count Bethlen made a speech at a great open - air meeting in ...
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