The Quarterly Review, 220. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1914 |
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... direct from the Sovereign , who still retains the ancient prerogative of in this way creating British subjects at his own discretion . The Committee did not quarrel with the survival of denization . As regards the other method , however ...
... direct from the Sovereign , who still retains the ancient prerogative of in this way creating British subjects at his own discretion . The Committee did not quarrel with the survival of denization . As regards the other method , however ...
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... direct contact with men , the old animistic belief in angels and demons , which had lasted on in the popular mind by the side of the worship of Jahveh , was extended in a new way . celestial hierarchy was invented , with names , and an ...
... direct contact with men , the old animistic belief in angels and demons , which had lasted on in the popular mind by the side of the worship of Jahveh , was extended in a new way . celestial hierarchy was invented , with names , and an ...
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... direct to England any sorts of hemp , flax , thread , yarn and all kinds of linen duty free , but for a long time all trade with America was forbidden . Few Nationalists of to - day could dislike the English Parliament more heartily ...
... direct to England any sorts of hemp , flax , thread , yarn and all kinds of linen duty free , but for a long time all trade with America was forbidden . Few Nationalists of to - day could dislike the English Parliament more heartily ...
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... direct touch with the Living Risen Christ ; this implied that there must be in the Bread and in the Wine the actual Presence of the Glorified Body of Christ . This Body Luther always conceived to be something extended in space ; but ...
... direct touch with the Living Risen Christ ; this implied that there must be in the Bread and in the Wine the actual Presence of the Glorified Body of Christ . This Body Luther always conceived to be something extended in space ; but ...
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... direct and indirect , on the English Reformation is universally admitted , but it is difficult to determine its extent . His writings had been read , known , and feared there , so early as 1529. As the movement for an English ...
... direct and indirect , on the English Reformation is universally admitted , but it is difficult to determine its extent . His writings had been read , known , and feared there , so early as 1529. As the movement for an English ...
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