The Quarterly review, Volume 41Murray, 1829 |
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... taken off , and deplored by none more than by the reformers themselves - by honest Latimer , in his ser- mons , above all . They well knew , that however such excesses brought the reformation , for a while , into disrepute , it was the ...
... taken off , and deplored by none more than by the reformers themselves - by honest Latimer , in his ser- mons , above all . They well knew , that however such excesses brought the reformation , for a while , into disrepute , it was the ...
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... 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 , and a few ( they are but few ) who are false to the establishment in which they ...
... 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 , and a few ( they are but few ) who are false to the establishment in which they ...
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... taken more oc- casions than one , of offering our feeble but unfeigned tribute of admiration to Bishop Butler . To him we believe that many men , whose thoughts , like Chillingworth's , might otherwise have proved more more than their ...
... taken more oc- casions than one , of offering our feeble but unfeigned tribute of admiration to Bishop Butler . To him we believe that many men , whose thoughts , like Chillingworth's , might otherwise have proved more more than their ...
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... taken into the Tartaric army , to the number of two hundred ; and from the period of this battle , ' says Marco Polo , the Grand Khan has always chosen to employ elephants in his armies , which before that time he had not done . ' The ...
... taken into the Tartaric army , to the number of two hundred ; and from the period of this battle , ' says Marco Polo , the Grand Khan has always chosen to employ elephants in his armies , which before that time he had not done . ' The ...
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... taken with less risk of compromising his authority . The king is partial to active sports , be- yond what is usual with Asiatic sovereigns , —such as water excursions , riding on horseback and on elephants , elephant catching , & c ...
... taken with less risk of compromising his authority . The king is partial to active sports , be- yond what is usual with Asiatic sovereigns , —such as water excursions , riding on horseback and on elephants , elephant catching , & c ...
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