The Quarterly Review, Volume 109William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1861 - English literature |
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... cause to dread - the licentious soldiery of old France , or the ferocious Indian tribes . But there was another foe of whom they then took little account ; the British settlers . France has never possessed the art of colonization . Her ...
... cause to dread - the licentious soldiery of old France , or the ferocious Indian tribes . But there was another foe of whom they then took little account ; the British settlers . France has never possessed the art of colonization . Her ...
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... cause of much slovenly farming . Only the best land , in remote settlements , is taken into cultivation , and as soon as it ceases to bear large crops it is abandoned , and suffered to run to waste ; whereas a farmer in England must ...
... cause of much slovenly farming . Only the best land , in remote settlements , is taken into cultivation , and as soon as it ceases to bear large crops it is abandoned , and suffered to run to waste ; whereas a farmer in England must ...
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... cause a scanty production . The northern shore of Lake Huron has the mean summer heat of Bordeaux , viz . 70 ° Fahr . , while Cum- berland House , in lat . 54 ° , long . 102 , on the Saskatchewan , exceeds in this respect Brussels and ...
... cause a scanty production . The northern shore of Lake Huron has the mean summer heat of Bordeaux , viz . 70 ° Fahr . , while Cum- berland House , in lat . 54 ° , long . 102 , on the Saskatchewan , exceeds in this respect Brussels and ...
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... caused enclosures to be made , fields to be ploughed and sown , pleasant wooden houses to be built , bees to be sheltered ... cause us but little surprise when we reflect that the bards down to a very late period cherished a great many ...
... caused enclosures to be made , fields to be ploughed and sown , pleasant wooden houses to be built , bees to be sheltered ... cause us but little surprise when we reflect that the bards down to a very late period cherished a great many ...
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... causing a hideous gap . Whoever has ventured to compose out of these measures , since the time of their establishment , has been considered by the Welsh scholar as unworthy of the name of poet . The earliest recorded poet of the Cymry ...
... causing a hideous gap . Whoever has ventured to compose out of these measures , since the time of their establishment , has been considered by the Welsh scholar as unworthy of the name of poet . The earliest recorded poet of the Cymry ...
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Page 283 - But I have greater witness than that of John : for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me.
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Page 327 - He was particularly curious with regard to the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated trials, that he could not bring any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise...