The Quarterly review, Volume 41Murray, 1829 |
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... labels . All these are indications , ( many of them trifles , in- deed , ) that the age of forms is gone by , and of something better B 2 than than forms , for they are the straws which point Progress and Prospects of Society . 3.
... labels . All these are indications , ( many of them trifles , in- deed , ) that the age of forms is gone by , and of something better B 2 than than forms , for they are the straws which point Progress and Prospects of Society . 3.
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... better- educated clergy , as the grossest superstition is among those who are taken , with little education , from the lower order of the people . Among the clergy of the church of England , there may be some who believe and tremble ...
... better- educated clergy , as the grossest superstition is among those who are taken , with little education , from the lower order of the people . Among the clergy of the church of England , there may be some who believe and tremble ...
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... better diversion than to laugh at the wranglers on either side . Symptoms of the jealousy and ill - blood thus occasioned , among their respective followers , abound in the writers of those times ; or if not jealousy of either , mockery ...
... better diversion than to laugh at the wranglers on either side . Symptoms of the jealousy and ill - blood thus occasioned , among their respective followers , abound in the writers of those times ; or if not jealousy of either , mockery ...
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... better : and now I think of it , I wonder he is not here . " " He was not , however , over civil to us . " " You have met with him , then ? " " We asked him for a night's lodging , but he bade us be- gone , as if we had been wolves ...
... better : and now I think of it , I wonder he is not here . " " He was not , however , over civil to us . " " You have met with him , then ? " " We asked him for a night's lodging , but he bade us be- gone , as if we had been wolves ...
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... better fitted to promote true religion than any which has been founded ) , but in the temper of the times , that we find cause for apprehen- sion . The deisidaimonia of the Athenians was once the charac- teristic of England ; but it is ...
... better fitted to promote true religion than any which has been founded ) , but in the temper of the times , that we find cause for apprehen- sion . The deisidaimonia of the Athenians was once the charac- teristic of England ; but it is ...
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