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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Page 11
... doubt- less admire these islands if he were suddenly transported thither , but they would never produce the same effect upon one that has seen a little of the world . ' Thus he spoke of them , thinking of the islands alone , without the ...
... doubt- less admire these islands if he were suddenly transported thither , but they would never produce the same effect upon one that has seen a little of the world . ' Thus he spoke of them , thinking of the islands alone , without the ...
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... doubt , to excessive fa- tigue . Casualties , doubly calamitous in their forlorn estate , would sometimes assail them . He , for instance , bad the misfortune to break his leg at a time when his wife was confined by sickness , and for ...
... doubt , to excessive fa- tigue . Casualties , doubly calamitous in their forlorn estate , would sometimes assail them . He , for instance , bad the misfortune to break his leg at a time when his wife was confined by sickness , and for ...
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... doubt the fact , that the chief of what we see is the work of four years . The hundreds of commodious , well - finished brick houses , the spacious and busy markets , the substantial public buildings , the thousands of prosperous well ...
... doubt the fact , that the chief of what we see is the work of four years . The hundreds of commodious , well - finished brick houses , the spacious and busy markets , the substantial public buildings , the thousands of prosperous well ...
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... doubt not , are already on the way to his publisher . 6 The new work takes the name of ' Letters from Illinois . ' Some malicious friend has furnished him with a motto of ominous im- port : Vor clamantis è Deserto ; the voice of one ...
... doubt not , are already on the way to his publisher . 6 The new work takes the name of ' Letters from Illinois . ' Some malicious friend has furnished him with a motto of ominous im- port : Vor clamantis è Deserto ; the voice of one ...
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... in this country and at this time is beyond all doubt the most favourable situation in which man has ever been placed for the cul- tivation tivation of his moral and intellectual nature , ) the 80 On the Means of Improving the People .
... in this country and at this time is beyond all doubt the most favourable situation in which man has ever been placed for the cul- tivation tivation of his moral and intellectual nature , ) the 80 On the Means of Improving the People .
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