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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... thing he said or did . The last time he had ben at church ( wch was at Greenwich ) , I ask'd him , according to costome , what he remembered of ye sermon ; two good things , father , said he , bonum gratiæ and bonum gloriæ , with a just ...
... thing he said or did . The last time he had ben at church ( wch was at Greenwich ) , I ask'd him , according to costome , what he remembered of ye sermon ; two good things , father , said he , bonum gratiæ and bonum gloriæ , with a just ...
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... things with the greatest joy , which now I write with as much sorrow and amasement . But so it is , that it has ... thing that concernes me . But thus we must be reduced when God sees good , and I submitt ; since I had , therefore ...
... things with the greatest joy , which now I write with as much sorrow and amasement . But so it is , that it has ... thing that concernes me . But thus we must be reduced when God sees good , and I submitt ; since I had , therefore ...
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... thing . Here we saw the Thames cover'd with goods floating , all the barges and boates laden with what some had time and courage to save , as , on ye other , ye carts , & c . carrying out to the fields , which for many miles were strew ...
... thing . Here we saw the Thames cover'd with goods floating , all the barges and boates laden with what some had time and courage to save , as , on ye other , ye carts , & c . carrying out to the fields , which for many miles were strew ...
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... ful invention , or any thing that is commendable , but tis well known who those Gavaches are who would impose upon all the world beside . ' purposes purposes unless it be tempered with clay ; no charcoal Evelyn's Memoirs . 41.
... ful invention , or any thing that is commendable , but tis well known who those Gavaches are who would impose upon all the world beside . ' purposes purposes unless it be tempered with clay ; no charcoal Evelyn's Memoirs . 41.
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... things , and some useful ones which have ceased to be generally known . The planter may still remember with profit the wood- man's proverb respecting the ... thing which did honour to to the oak . Its twigs , he says , 48 Evelyn's Memoirs .
... things , and some useful ones which have ceased to be generally known . The planter may still remember with profit the wood- man's proverb respecting the ... thing which did honour to to the oak . Its twigs , he says , 48 Evelyn's Memoirs .
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