The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 88A. Constable, 1848 |
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... kingdom , to which different names are given in the poems . The German version calls it the kingdom of the Burgundians , and thus gives a kind of historical appearance to the tale . The King Gibesh had three sons , Gunther , Hagen , and ...
... kingdom , to which different names are given in the poems . The German version calls it the kingdom of the Burgundians , and thus gives a kind of historical appearance to the tale . The King Gibesh had three sons , Gunther , Hagen , and ...
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... kingdoms , and caring little for their pleasure or displeasure , he was ready , by his sword and song , to incur either , with an indifference which a well - earned self - confidence and a disjointed state of society alone could give ...
... kingdoms , and caring little for their pleasure or displeasure , he was ready , by his sword and song , to incur either , with an indifference which a well - earned self - confidence and a disjointed state of society alone could give ...
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... kingdoms , among which Egypt was the most powerful , have received too little attention from historians . Until the appearance of the volume before us , no work in our language had been devoted to the era of the Ptolemies . Dr. Gillies ...
... kingdoms , among which Egypt was the most powerful , have received too little attention from historians . Until the appearance of the volume before us , no work in our language had been devoted to the era of the Ptolemies . Dr. Gillies ...
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... kingdom , he deserves to be placed among the benefactors of mankind . Greece , at the date of the foundation of Alexandria , was little less disorganised than Egypt itself . Corrupt oligarchies , or turbulent demo- cracies oppressed its ...
... kingdom , he deserves to be placed among the benefactors of mankind . Greece , at the date of the foundation of Alexandria , was little less disorganised than Egypt itself . Corrupt oligarchies , or turbulent demo- cracies oppressed its ...
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... kingdom . The religion of the people , and not that of their rulers , was made the esta- blished religion of the state . The Egyptian laws were ad- ministered by their own priests , who were upheld in all the rights of their order and ...
... kingdom . The religion of the people , and not that of their rulers , was made the esta- blished religion of the state . The Egyptian laws were ad- ministered by their own priests , who were upheld in all the rights of their order and ...
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Page 360 - ... we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
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Page 341 - Seven years, my Lord,' have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.