Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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... side . Though England was even then the first of maritime powers , she was not , as she has since become , more than a match on the sea for all the nations of the world together ; and she found it difficult to maintain a contest against ...
... side . Though England was even then the first of maritime powers , she was not , as she has since become , more than a match on the sea for all the nations of the world together ; and she found it difficult to maintain a contest against ...
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... sides of which four pompous inscrip- tions , in four languages , should proclaim his glory to all the nations of the East . Medals stamped with emblems of his successes were buried beneath the foundations of this stately pillar , and ...
... sides of which four pompous inscrip- tions , in four languages , should proclaim his glory to all the nations of the East . Medals stamped with emblems of his successes were buried beneath the foundations of this stately pillar , and ...
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... side the heaps of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome work . When at length a passage was made , twenty - three ghastly figures , such as their own mothers would not have known , staggered one by ...
... side the heaps of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome work . When at length a passage was made , twenty - three ghastly figures , such as their own mothers would not have known , staggered one by ...
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... side . Sulivan wished to try the result of a ballot . But , according to the by - laws of the Company , there can be no ballot except on a requisition signed by nine proprietors ; and , though hundreds were present , nine persons could ...
... side . Sulivan wished to try the result of a ballot . But , according to the by - laws of the Company , there can be no ballot except on a requisition signed by nine proprietors ; and , though hundreds were present , nine persons could ...
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... side . It is hardly too much to say that , during a space of about thirty years , the whole lighter literature of England was coloured by the feelings which we have described . Foote brought on the stage an Anglo - Indian chief ...
... side . It is hardly too much to say that , during a space of about thirty years , the whole lighter literature of England was coloured by the feelings which we have described . Foote brought on the stage an Anglo - Indian chief ...
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