The Quarterly Review, Volume 19William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1818 - English literature |
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... established in a part of England where he could partake the delights of a country life which no man ever loved more dearly , and the advantages of science and society that the metropolis affords , which no man could estimate more justly ...
... established in a part of England where he could partake the delights of a country life which no man ever loved more dearly , and the advantages of science and society that the metropolis affords , which no man could estimate more justly ...
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... established as chancellor . Had Laud been born a gene- ration earlier , or a generation later , how high and undisputed a re- putation would he have raised by his munificent love of letters , and his conscientious discharge of the ...
... established as chancellor . Had Laud been born a gene- ration earlier , or a generation later , how high and undisputed a re- putation would he have raised by his munificent love of letters , and his conscientious discharge of the ...
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... established than Laud had ever attempted to enforce , and that the republicans who , while they conferred upon him more than kingly power , would not suffer him to take the title of king , would by their follies , extravagancies , and ...
... established than Laud had ever attempted to enforce , and that the republicans who , while they conferred upon him more than kingly power , would not suffer him to take the title of king , would by their follies , extravagancies , and ...
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... established , room was carefully left for a subdolous construction of the words — as if the Church of Rome were the only lawful one ; advised him , therefore , that in all extraordinary offices the words Reformed and Protestant should ...
... established , room was carefully left for a subdolous construction of the words — as if the Church of Rome were the only lawful one ; advised him , therefore , that in all extraordinary offices the words Reformed and Protestant should ...
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... establish- ment may be , he does not perceive that you have a right to complain : what he has you partake of , but he makes no apologies ; and if you shew symptoms of dissatisfaction or disgust , you will fare the worse ; whilst a ...
... establish- ment may be , he does not perceive that you have a right to complain : what he has you partake of , but he makes no apologies ; and if you shew symptoms of dissatisfaction or disgust , you will fare the worse ; whilst a ...
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Page 127 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the Archbishop hovering over him with a smellingbottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other.