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The Linesman: Or, Service in the Guards and the Line During England's Long ... - Page 381
by Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier - 1856
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 16

1849 - 606 pages
...mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Everywhere there is a class of men, who cling with fondness to...that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings. We find also, everywhere, another class of men, sanguine in hope,...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 550 pages
...mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Every where there is a class of men who cling with fondness to...that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings. We find also everywhere another class of men, sanguine in hope,...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 16

1849 - 588 pages
...mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Everywhere writer can it be affirmed with less hesitation, that...Esq., RA By his Son, W. WILKIK COLLINS. 2 vols. L with many misgivings and forebodings. We find also, everywhere, another class of men, sanguine in hope,...
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The Daguerreotype, Volume 3

1849 - 588 pages
...mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, — nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Everywhere there is a class of men who cling with fondness to...that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings. We find, also, everywhere another class of men, sanguine in hope,...
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Everywhere there is a class of men who cling with fondness to...that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings?• We find also everywhere another class of men sanguine in hope,...
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The Western Quarterly Review

1849 - 364 pages
...mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, nay, even in mathematics we find this distinction. Everywhere there is a class of men, who cling with fondness to...that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings. We find, also, everywhere, another class of men, sanguine in...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 39

1849 - 778 pages
...— nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Everywhere there is a class, 1849.] [January, of men who cling with fondness to whatever is ancient,...that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and forebodings. We find, also, everywhere another class of men, sanguine in hope,...
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The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second

Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Everywhere there is a class of men who cling with fondness to...convinced by overpowering reasons that innovation CHAP. would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and — - — forebodings. We find also...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 480 pages
...mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Everywhere there is a class of men who cling with fondness to...ancient, and who, even when convinced by overpowering rea- " •• sons, that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many mis- . givings and...
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State Trials of the United States During the Administrations of Washington ...

Francis Wharton - 1849 - 762 pages
...regularly patrolled. (See Mr. LuUm'i letter to If. JUoeU, post 682.) find this distinction. Everywhere there is a class of men who cling with fondness to...whatever is ancient, and who, even when convinced by ov»rpowering reasons, that innovation would be beneficial, consent to it with many misgivings and...
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