The Quarterly Review, 216. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1912 |
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... France , and had been Dean of Carlisle . His experience of the House of Commons , as a member , dated from 1553 , when he was for some months member for Grampound . He was again elected a member ( for Liverpool ) on January 6 , 1559 ...
... France , and had been Dean of Carlisle . His experience of the House of Commons , as a member , dated from 1553 , when he was for some months member for Grampound . He was again elected a member ( for Liverpool ) on January 6 , 1559 ...
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... France that Dr Pagello was still alive in Venice , had said somewhat in the matter , and could say more . He was plied with visits and enquiries . His family , after his death , produced a diary or diaries . Once on a time it was the ...
... France that Dr Pagello was still alive in Venice , had said somewhat in the matter , and could say more . He was plied with visits and enquiries . His family , after his death , produced a diary or diaries . Once on a time it was the ...
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... France - are al more or less concerned . These other Powers are all pains to strengthen their position and influence in t Pacific ; and it would surely be a politic act on the pa of the British Empire to do the same . The British ...
... France - are al more or less concerned . These other Powers are all pains to strengthen their position and influence in t Pacific ; and it would surely be a politic act on the pa of the British Empire to do the same . The British ...
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... France developed the Synod , Scotland the ' concentric system of courts ' ; it remained for Cartwright at Cambridge to raise the anti - episcopalian cry of ' parity of ministers . ' The sketch of Elizabeth's character , and of the ...
... France developed the Synod , Scotland the ' concentric system of courts ' ; it remained for Cartwright at Cambridge to raise the anti - episcopalian cry of ' parity of ministers . ' The sketch of Elizabeth's character , and of the ...
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... France and Spain was now firmly fixed ; the smaller Powers , and the tangled policies of Germany , stand ranged around them much as they were to stand until the Thirty Years ' War . The one uncertain thing in politics was the part which ...
... France and Spain was now firmly fixed ; the smaller Powers , and the tangled policies of Germany , stand ranged around them much as they were to stand until the Thirty Years ' War . The one uncertain thing in politics was the part which ...
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Page 83 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself...
Page 386 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
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Page 334 - Right under the pump-room windows is the King's Bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or the heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another...
Page 327 - This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length.
Page 336 - That the elder ladies and children be content with a second bench at the ball, as being past or not come to perfection. 9. That the younger ladies take notice how many eyes observe them. NB This does not extend to the Have-at-alls. 10. That all whisperers of lies and scandal, be taken for their authors.
Page 218 - For this purpose it is not absolutely necessary that the German fleet should be as strong as that of the greatest Sea Power, because, generally, a great Sea Power will not be in a position to concentrate all its forces against us.
Page 417 - If seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world, Arthur, as see them you can with only too fatal a clearness, you submit to them without any protest farther than a laugh : if, plunged yourself in easy sensuality, you allow the whole wretched world to pass...
Page 272 - ... subject only to such particular exemptions or abatements in Ireland, and in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, as circumstances may appear from time to time to demand. That from the period of such declaration, it shall no longer be necessary to regulate the contribution of the two countries towards the future expenditure of the united kingdom...