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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... importance and no inconsiderable amount of their prosperity . The possession of Canada by Great Britain dates from the year 1759 : the formal cession of the province by France was one of the stipulations of the treaty of Paris in 1763 ...
... importance and no inconsiderable amount of their prosperity . The possession of Canada by Great Britain dates from the year 1759 : the formal cession of the province by France was one of the stipulations of the treaty of Paris in 1763 ...
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... important market to our commerce , a nursery to our navy . Now we are forced to confine in our prisons culprits condemned by the tribunals , for want of a spot of ground whereon to place these wretched creatures . We are excluded from ...
... important market to our commerce , a nursery to our navy . Now we are forced to confine in our prisons culprits condemned by the tribunals , for want of a spot of ground whereon to place these wretched creatures . We are excluded from ...
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... important changes believed to be essential to its progress . These consist prin- cipally in a reform of the legislature , an extension of the fran- chise , a complete system of municipal self - government , the abolition of feudal ...
... important changes believed to be essential to its progress . These consist prin- cipally in a reform of the legislature , an extension of the fran- chise , a complete system of municipal self - government , the abolition of feudal ...
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... important , Those not familiar with the subject , ' adds the Report , are startled at the idea of a daily line , but when reduced to figures it will not be found formidable : 2000 tons per day for 200 days , the length of the season ...
... important , Those not familiar with the subject , ' adds the Report , are startled at the idea of a daily line , but when reduced to figures it will not be found formidable : 2000 tons per day for 200 days , the length of the season ...
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... importance of such a line , as a means of shortening the communication between Europe and China , and of laying open the resources of an immense and at present little known territory , cannot be exaggerated . But to this subject we ...
... importance of such a line , as a means of shortening the communication between Europe and China , and of laying open the resources of an immense and at present little known territory , cannot be exaggerated . But to this subject we ...
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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...