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Alas ! if these wretched misusers of language , the means of giving wings to thought , the means of multiplying the ... ―alas ! had they ever known how great a thing the posses- sion of any one simple truth is , and how mean a thing ' a ...
Alas ! if these wretched misusers of language , the means of giving wings to thought , the means of multiplying the ... ―alas ! had they ever known how great a thing the posses- sion of any one simple truth is , and how mean a thing ' a ...
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English means , " Oh , Prince , the mule wants to get on too fast . ' ( vol . i . p . 286. ) Our traveller , after his recovery from his first ride , waits upon the governor of Algiers , Count Erlon , who had lived much in Germany ...
English means , " Oh , Prince , the mule wants to get on too fast . ' ( vol . i . p . 286. ) Our traveller , after his recovery from his first ride , waits upon the governor of Algiers , Count Erlon , who had lived much in Germany ...
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would have been realised ; and historians would load my memory with reproaches of phlegm and stupidity and oppression ; but in the mean time the world would go on quietly , and if it enjoyed less liberty , would at least be more secure ...
would have been realised ; and historians would load my memory with reproaches of phlegm and stupidity and oppression ; but in the mean time the world would go on quietly , and if it enjoyed less liberty , would at least be more secure ...
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| Pealkiri | The Quarterly Review, 59. köide |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1837 |
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