The Quarterly Review, 163. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1886 |
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... existence of arrangements suitable to the interests of the out- going consuls as to the allocation of the provincial governments . Though largitio was condemned in the conduct of a canvass , liberalitas was permitted and encouraged ...
... existence of arrangements suitable to the interests of the out- going consuls as to the allocation of the provincial governments . Though largitio was condemned in the conduct of a canvass , liberalitas was permitted and encouraged ...
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... existence of an exception to a rule founded on induction prisoners quickly , or mitigate their sufferings . One calls to mind the terrible passage in Cicero's speech against Verres ( 2 Verr . v . 45 , § 118 ) . There was the lictor ...
... existence of an exception to a rule founded on induction prisoners quickly , or mitigate their sufferings . One calls to mind the terrible passage in Cicero's speech against Verres ( 2 Verr . v . 45 , § 118 ) . There was the lictor ...
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... existence of a principle that ' A landlord who is not humane ought to be assassinated . ' By applying ' the exception proves the rule ' to a passage in a somewhat recent book by a native Indian , we may see that incorruptibility is ...
... existence of a principle that ' A landlord who is not humane ought to be assassinated . ' By applying ' the exception proves the rule ' to a passage in a somewhat recent book by a native Indian , we may see that incorruptibility is ...
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... existence stringent statutes against corruption , and every voter was obliged to take the bribery oath . To evade these statutes , or salve the consciences of punctilious electors , it was the habit of some constituencies to appoint a ...
... existence stringent statutes against corruption , and every voter was obliged to take the bribery oath . To evade these statutes , or salve the consciences of punctilious electors , it was the habit of some constituencies to appoint a ...
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... existence . But at the close of the seventeenth century arose a new form of fiction dealing with real life , with man and his ordinary emotions . Heroic and medieval romances were valued in proportion to their extrava- gance ; all that ...
... existence . But at the close of the seventeenth century arose a new form of fiction dealing with real life , with man and his ordinary emotions . Heroic and medieval romances were valued in proportion to their extrava- gance ; all that ...
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