The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 |
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... nature , poured forth from time to time by the Pa- risian press , though there are not a few , particularly in the descrip- tive department , which the student of the classics must value as furnishing excellent materials for his ...
... nature , poured forth from time to time by the Pa- risian press , though there are not a few , particularly in the descrip- tive department , which the student of the classics must value as furnishing excellent materials for his ...
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... nature than the most precise definition . Miltiades , the son of Cypselus , established a sort of sovereignty in the Chersonese , about 560 years before our æra . But this Miltiades was the sixteenth in descent from Ajax Telamon ; and ...
... nature than the most precise definition . Miltiades , the son of Cypselus , established a sort of sovereignty in the Chersonese , about 560 years before our æra . But this Miltiades was the sixteenth in descent from Ajax Telamon ; and ...
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... nature . To this situation , that of a barbarian community presents , in almost every respect , a direct contrast . Its supplies are always precarious , and occasionally liable to the most alarining defalca- tions . When a great ...
... nature . To this situation , that of a barbarian community presents , in almost every respect , a direct contrast . Its supplies are always precarious , and occasionally liable to the most alarining defalca- tions . When a great ...
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... nature to some acts of policy , not very dissimilar from those which have immortalized cer- tain other eminent members of the same brotherhood . He took measures , as our author informs us , to consolidate his authority.- He introduced ...
... nature to some acts of policy , not very dissimilar from those which have immortalized cer- tain other eminent members of the same brotherhood . He took measures , as our author informs us , to consolidate his authority.- He introduced ...
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... nature of their themes , the object of their poetry , the rules upon which it is conducted , differ as widely as possible ; and if they had not both been called epic poets , scarcely another point of resem- blance would be found between ...
... nature of their themes , the object of their poetry , the rules upon which it is conducted , differ as widely as possible ; and if they had not both been called epic poets , scarcely another point of resem- blance would be found between ...
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