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But it is not with any view either to blame or exculpation that we ques- tion the wisdom or policy of the measure ; it is for the purpose of examining what consequences might be reasonably expected from its adoption , under the ...
But it is not with any view either to blame or exculpation that we ques- tion the wisdom or policy of the measure ; it is for the purpose of examining what consequences might be reasonably expected from its adoption , under the ...
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We are perfectly aware that , according to the modern canons of criticism , the Reviewer is expected to shew his immense superiority to the Author re- viewed , and at the same time to relieve the tediousness of narra- tion by turning ...
We are perfectly aware that , according to the modern canons of criticism , the Reviewer is expected to shew his immense superiority to the Author re- viewed , and at the same time to relieve the tediousness of narra- tion by turning ...
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It was said by a man of genius that Spanish is just such a lan- guage as he should have expected to hear spoken by a Roman slave , sulky from the bastinado . The natives of Portugal , in a more complimentary similitude , love to speak ...
It was said by a man of genius that Spanish is just such a lan- guage as he should have expected to hear spoken by a Roman slave , sulky from the bastinado . The natives of Portugal , in a more complimentary similitude , love to speak ...
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Contents
Affaires dEspagne Nos 1 to 5 Confédération | 1 |
Reliques of Robert Burns consisting chiefly of original | 19 |
Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born | 36 |
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| Pealkiri | The Quarterly Review, 1. 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, 1809 |
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