The Quarterly Review, Volumen16John Murray, 1817 |
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... reader must sit down contented with the single description of the first traveller , however inaccurate . Pococke bears testimony to the correctness of Diodorus , in his description of Thebes and the stupendous temples of Karnac and ...
... reader must sit down contented with the single description of the first traveller , however inaccurate . Pococke bears testimony to the correctness of Diodorus , in his description of Thebes and the stupendous temples of Karnac and ...
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... readers must be aware , that we are generally inclined ( though we do not shrink from giving our own honest opinion ) to permit authors to speak for themselves ; and to quote from their own works such passages as may appear to us to ...
... readers must be aware , that we are generally inclined ( though we do not shrink from giving our own honest opinion ) to permit authors to speak for themselves ; and to quote from their own works such passages as may appear to us to ...
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... readers . We shall conclude our poetical extracts with the de- scription of a traitor , which will remind our readers of some of the most splendid passages of Lord Nugent's Portugal . the traitor's impious soul Blasphemes at grace and ...
... readers . We shall conclude our poetical extracts with the de- scription of a traitor , which will remind our readers of some of the most splendid passages of Lord Nugent's Portugal . the traitor's impious soul Blasphemes at grace and ...
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... readers will , by this time , think that we have fully justified our opinion of the style of this Dublin Demosthenes . But we have something more than mere errors of style to object to Mr. Phillips ; we shall say little of the want of ...
... readers will , by this time , think that we have fully justified our opinion of the style of this Dublin Demosthenes . But we have something more than mere errors of style to object to Mr. Phillips ; we shall say little of the want of ...
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... readers should doubt the modesty of this blushing Hibernian , we shall give his own words - a course which is always the safest , and , with so profuse a talker as Mr. Phillips , the most decisive and con- vincing . ' I hope , however ...
... readers should doubt the modesty of this blushing Hibernian , we shall give his own words - a course which is always the safest , and , with so profuse a talker as Mr. Phillips , the most decisive and con- vincing . ' I hope , however ...
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