The Quarterly Review, 118. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1865 |
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... immediately on our subject . Speaking of the good feeling exist- ing between landlord and tenant , and the common cause made by * Introduction , p . xiv . both both against the rights asserted by the great proprietors of Grouse . 9.
... immediately on our subject . Speaking of the good feeling exist- ing between landlord and tenant , and the common cause made by * Introduction , p . xiv . both both against the rights asserted by the great proprietors of Grouse . 9.
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... common weal . Without entering into this vexed question , we must object one conclusion of the opponents of this system . They argue , that with the sheep the inhabitants of the neighbour- hood are removed - the country depopulated ...
... common weal . Without entering into this vexed question , we must object one conclusion of the opponents of this system . They argue , that with the sheep the inhabitants of the neighbour- hood are removed - the country depopulated ...
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... common - sense view of it . ' We have , ' he says , ' the new law of entail , which will go a good way to destroy our famed nationality ; and by introducing moneyed strangers who know little , and feel less of sympathy with the Highland ...
... common - sense view of it . ' We have , ' he says , ' the new law of entail , which will go a good way to destroy our famed nationality ; and by introducing moneyed strangers who know little , and feel less of sympathy with the Highland ...
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... common friends , and messages of civility had passed between us ; but we had not yet met , when one day in October I was shooting down the river - side and the islands in the Findhorn , making out a bag of partridges laboriously . It ...
... common friends , and messages of civility had passed between us ; but we had not yet met , when one day in October I was shooting down the river - side and the islands in the Findhorn , making out a bag of partridges laboriously . It ...
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... common fate with the old kings of Rome , as if it contained an allusion to the wayside sepulchres through which the great man passed— ' Cum bene notum Porticus Agrippa , et via te conspexerit Appî , Ire tamen restat Numa quò devenit et ...
... common fate with the old kings of Rome , as if it contained an allusion to the wayside sepulchres through which the great man passed— ' Cum bene notum Porticus Agrippa , et via te conspexerit Appî , Ire tamen restat Numa quò devenit et ...
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Page 529 - Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Page 96 - OH, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now...
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