The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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Page 194
... with reverence is to agree with the whole Christian world : I hope to look into
his books with other purposes than those of criticism , and after their perusal not
only to write but to live better ; -he assuredly could have been no ordinary man .
... with reverence is to agree with the whole Christian world : I hope to look into
his books with other purposes than those of criticism , and after their perusal not
only to write but to live better ; -he assuredly could have been no ordinary man .
Page 225
There was no other course , equally frank and sensible , which the Governor
could have taken . That a letter thus submitted for criticism and examination
should long remain a secret , was wholly impossible . To suppose that a
document ...
There was no other course , equally frank and sensible , which the Governor
could have taken . That a letter thus submitted for criticism and examination
should long remain a secret , was wholly impossible . To suppose that a
document ...
Page 235
Men who know only of risings and civil war by books ✓ have been free in their
condemnation of acts which , because they were not likely to be done in England
, these critics hastily inferred ought not to be done in Jamaica . In their strictures ...
Men who know only of risings and civil war by books ✓ have been free in their
condemnation of acts which , because they were not likely to be done in England
, these critics hastily inferred ought not to be done in Jamaica . In their strictures ...
Page 240
... out death to forty or fifty rebels as retribution for the deaths of the fifty volunteers
and justices slain and wounded at and after the affair of Morant Bay . Yet this is
the suggestion which has been made by philanthropic critics reading the Reports
...
... out death to forty or fifty rebels as retribution for the deaths of the fifty volunteers
and justices slain and wounded at and after the affair of Morant Bay . Yet this is
the suggestion which has been made by philanthropic critics reading the Reports
...
Page 269
But as it advanced its path became more and more encumbered . Hostile
amendments , friendly additions , dilatory motions , criticisms of a most
exhaustive character met it at at every turn . The numbers of the divisions varied
The Change of ...
But as it advanced its path became more and more encumbered . Hostile
amendments , friendly additions , dilatory motions , criticisms of a most
exhaustive character met it at at every turn . The numbers of the divisions varied
The Change of ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Sir John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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