The Quarterly Review, Volume 217William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1912 - English literature |
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... Cause of it all , ' produced in April last by the Adelphi Play Society , it is hard to believe that he really wrote them as they stand . Among the younger generation , Osip Dymof has 6 succeeded in bringing this peculiarly Russian ...
... Cause of it all , ' produced in April last by the Adelphi Play Society , it is hard to believe that he really wrote them as they stand . Among the younger generation , Osip Dymof has 6 succeeded in bringing this peculiarly Russian ...
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... causes of the growth and decay of nations have been many and varied . At a period when competition has been keen and when several nations have been strenuously contending for supremacy , the fortune of war , the chance of the day , the ...
... causes of the growth and decay of nations have been many and varied . At a period when competition has been keen and when several nations have been strenuously contending for supremacy , the fortune of war , the chance of the day , the ...
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... cause of national decay . The history of the human race points to the origin of progress and decline as being much more deeply seated . Advance is dependent upon the gradual evolution of new functions whereby adaptation is secured to an ...
... cause of national decay . The history of the human race points to the origin of progress and decline as being much more deeply seated . Advance is dependent upon the gradual evolution of new functions whereby adaptation is secured to an ...
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... causes , rather than to any heightened vitality of the people themselves , that this decline is due . For instance , between 1850 and 1908 the mortality rate from consumption declined to the extent of 65 per cent . From 1871 to 1908 the ...
... causes , rather than to any heightened vitality of the people themselves , that this decline is due . For instance , between 1850 and 1908 the mortality rate from consumption declined to the extent of 65 per cent . From 1871 to 1908 the ...
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... cause as there were in 1873. And the proportion is by no means insignificant ; it is now nearly two - fifths of the total number of deaths . But it is certain that many delicate children are reared to - day who would formerly have ...
... cause as there were in 1873. And the proportion is by no means insignificant ; it is now nearly two - fifths of the total number of deaths . But it is certain that many delicate children are reared to - day who would formerly have ...
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Page 161 - Bends. Then on the waters of the forlorn stream drifts a ship— a shadowy ship manned by a crew of Shades. They pass and make a sign, in a shadowy hail. Haven't we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung out a meaning from our sinful lives? Good-bye, brothers! You were a good crowd. As good a crowd as ever fisted with wild cries the beating canvas of a heavy foresail; or tossing aloft, invisible in the night; gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale.
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