The Quarterly Review, Volumen 29John Murray, 1823 |
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... ancient picture - lan- guage of China , and the quipos of Peru with the knotted and party coloured cords which the Chinese history informs us were in use in the early period of the empire ; we might compare the high cheek bones , and ...
... ancient picture - lan- guage of China , and the quipos of Peru with the knotted and party coloured cords which the Chinese history informs us were in use in the early period of the empire ; we might compare the high cheek bones , and ...
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... ancient , has attained . It is not to be understood that the Greeks acted in contradic- tion to nature . Quite the reverse . They followed all that they knew concerning her ; and it was she who was circumscribed . But a nation that , at ...
... ancient , has attained . It is not to be understood that the Greeks acted in contradic- tion to nature . Quite the reverse . They followed all that they knew concerning her ; and it was she who was circumscribed . But a nation that , at ...
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... ancient pomp in a vial of modern luxury . ' The manner in which the original Diego tries the courage of his sons , to whom he would commit the care of avenging the affront affront he had received , is highly characteristic of a French ...
... ancient pomp in a vial of modern luxury . ' The manner in which the original Diego tries the courage of his sons , to whom he would commit the care of avenging the affront affront he had received , is highly characteristic of a French ...
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... ancient monarchs . His first measure on entering on this career of iniquity , was to render the cupidity of Godoy instrumental to its success . That upstart , who was at once the paramour of the Spanish queen and the possessor of her ...
... ancient monarchs . His first measure on entering on this career of iniquity , was to render the cupidity of Godoy instrumental to its success . That upstart , who was at once the paramour of the Spanish queen and the possessor of her ...
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... declaring war against the most ancient of its allies , at the insolent command of an imperious oppressor . But even this last prostration prostration to his tyranny was unavailing ; he had fixed 56 Southey's History of the Peninsular War .
... declaring war against the most ancient of its allies , at the insolent command of an imperious oppressor . But even this last prostration prostration to his tyranny was unavailing ; he had fixed 56 Southey's History of the Peninsular War .
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Página 208 - English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours.
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Página 205 - English, our nation can never want in any age such, who are able to dispute the empire of wit with any people in the universe. And though the fury of a civil war, and power, for twenty years together, abandoned to a barbarous race of men, enemies of all good learning, had buried the muses...
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Página 387 - If your majesty places any faith in those books, by distinction called divine, you will there be instructed that God is the God of all mankind, not the God of Mahomedans alone.