The Quarterly Review, Volume 166William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1888 - English literature |
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... common kind has for the past five years been aroused by the report , that a memoir was , natur- ally enough , being prepared of the great biologist whose mortal remains were laid in Westminster Abbey on the 26th of April , 1882. The ...
... common kind has for the past five years been aroused by the report , that a memoir was , natur- ally enough , being prepared of the great biologist whose mortal remains were laid in Westminster Abbey on the 26th of April , 1882. The ...
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... common men . having adopted the medical profession , was of extraordinary promise when he was cut off in his twenty - first year , by a wound received in dissecting , and Erasmus , the second , amused himself when a boy , by numbering ...
... common men . having adopted the medical profession , was of extraordinary promise when he was cut off in his twenty - first year , by a wound received in dissecting , and Erasmus , the second , amused himself when a boy , by numbering ...
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... common run of youths , otherwise the above - mentioned men , so much older than me and higher in academical position , would never have allowed me to associate with them . Certainly I was not aware of any such superiority , and I ...
... common run of youths , otherwise the above - mentioned men , so much older than me and higher in academical position , would never have allowed me to associate with them . Certainly I was not aware of any such superiority , and I ...
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... common- sense advised his son to go , he would not disapprove , and fortunately this man of common - sense was forthcoming in Josiah Wedgwood , a favourite uncle , who wrote to his brother- * Some of the disadvantageous circumstances ...
... common- sense advised his son to go , he would not disapprove , and fortunately this man of common - sense was forthcoming in Josiah Wedgwood , a favourite uncle , who wrote to his brother- * Some of the disadvantageous circumstances ...
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... common ? If you have , should you think it too ridiculous to offer a reward for me for lizard's eggs to the boys in your school ; a shilling for every half- dozen , or more if rare , till you get two or three dozen and send them to me ...
... common ? If you have , should you think it too ridiculous to offer a reward for me for lizard's eggs to the boys in your school ; a shilling for every half- dozen , or more if rare , till you get two or three dozen and send them to me ...
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