The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 - Periodicals |
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... less than 140,000l .; and if the statistics above quoted are correct , the second generation of the family must have made itself very happy out of the savings of the past generation , and without caring for the poverty of the next ...
... less than 140,000l .; and if the statistics above quoted are correct , the second generation of the family must have made itself very happy out of the savings of the past generation , and without caring for the poverty of the next ...
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... less delighted with the beauties of Stourhead than with discovering in the library a common book , the Continuation of Echard's Roman History , which is indeed executed with more skill and taste than the previous work . To me the reigns ...
... less delighted with the beauties of Stourhead than with discovering in the library a common book , the Continuation of Echard's Roman History , which is indeed executed with more skill and taste than the previous work . To me the reigns ...
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... less ceremony ; the excuse was admitted with the same indulgence : the slightest motive of laziness or indisposition , the most trifling avocation at home or abroad , was allowed as a worthy impediment ; nor did my tutor appear ...
... less ceremony ; the excuse was admitted with the same indulgence : the slightest motive of laziness or indisposition , the most trifling avocation at home or abroad , was allowed as a worthy impediment ; nor did my tutor appear ...
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... less in England ; yet his cold and discriminating intellect at once emancipated him from the sophistries which imposed on those less watchful . He wrote to Gibbon , " I have only one objection , derived from the language in which it is ...
... less in England ; yet his cold and discriminating intellect at once emancipated him from the sophistries which imposed on those less watchful . He wrote to Gibbon , " I have only one objection , derived from the language in which it is ...
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... less striking than the pyramids of the Pharaohs , and by the ruins of cities as expressive of departed might as Thebes , or Babylon , or Hecatompolis . Mr. Helps " imagines " a voyage undertaken by navigators well qualified to observe ...
... less striking than the pyramids of the Pharaohs , and by the ruins of cities as expressive of departed might as Thebes , or Babylon , or Hecatompolis . Mr. Helps " imagines " a voyage undertaken by navigators well qualified to observe ...
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