The Quarterly Review, Volumen 164William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1887 |
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... present work , full of interest as it is , rather à collection of materials for some future biographer's use , than a performance which can hope to take rank as the standard and monumental record of so noble and prominent a personage ...
... present work , full of interest as it is , rather à collection of materials for some future biographer's use , than a performance which can hope to take rank as the standard and monumental record of so noble and prominent a personage ...
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... present century several attempts were made to alleviate these horrors by legislative enactments , but , what with the influence of the great millowners , and the jealousy of the political economists , no effectual remedy was applied ...
... present century several attempts were made to alleviate these horrors by legislative enactments , but , what with the influence of the great millowners , and the jealousy of the political economists , no effectual remedy was applied ...
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... present his case in Parliament with an authority and a vividness which compelled attention , and sometimes almost electrified the House . Besides , to judge fairly of the immense sacrifices which this thoroughness entailed upon him , it ...
... present his case in Parliament with an authority and a vividness which compelled attention , and sometimes almost electrified the House . Besides , to judge fairly of the immense sacrifices which this thoroughness entailed upon him , it ...
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... present day , is uprooting , and irrevocably , our social system . ' For our purpose the value of these judgments on contemporary politicians is purely psychological . They illustrate the action of Lord Shaftesbury's mind , and explain ...
... present day , is uprooting , and irrevocably , our social system . ' For our purpose the value of these judgments on contemporary politicians is purely psychological . They illustrate the action of Lord Shaftesbury's mind , and explain ...
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... on the part of the City authorities , that the present con- dition of this noble foundation is to be ascribed . But the warmest warmest admirers of Gresham College will hardly contend , that 34 The University of London .
... on the part of the City authorities , that the present con- dition of this noble foundation is to be ascribed . But the warmest warmest admirers of Gresham College will hardly contend , that 34 The University of London .
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Página 307 - While day-light held The sky, the Poet kept mute conference With his still soul. At night the passion came, Like the fierce fiend of a distempered dream, And shook him from his rest, and led him forth Into the darkness...
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