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... whole , fairly be awarded that praise for this History of the English Insti- tutions , ' even the omissions of which might escape notice , but for its rather ambitious title . It contains , in a short compass , an amount of information ...
... whole , fairly be awarded that praise for this History of the English Insti- tutions , ' even the omissions of which might escape notice , but for its rather ambitious title . It contains , in a short compass , an amount of information ...
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... whole now bears the character of a retrospect ive compilation , and has lost that charm and freshness which we expect to find in the personal relation of incidents in which the narrator took part , or of which he was an eye- quickly ...
... whole now bears the character of a retrospect ive compilation , and has lost that charm and freshness which we expect to find in the personal relation of incidents in which the narrator took part , or of which he was an eye- quickly ...
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... whole , this novel On the whole , this novel will be read with pleasure by all who can ap preciate an unha ckneyed subject and a graphi pen . With characteristic audacity Mr. Mortimer Collins has struck out a new line , and enlarged the ...
... whole , this novel On the whole , this novel will be read with pleasure by all who can ap preciate an unha ckneyed subject and a graphi pen . With characteristic audacity Mr. Mortimer Collins has struck out a new line , and enlarged the ...
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... whole of very unusual merit . " - Daily News . " We do not remember ever to have read a story more perfect of its kind than ' Mis tress Judith ' ; and , since Mrs. Gaskell's ' Sylvia's Lovers , ' we have not read a sadder one ..... A ...
... whole of very unusual merit . " - Daily News . " We do not remember ever to have read a story more perfect of its kind than ' Mis tress Judith ' ; and , since Mrs. Gaskell's ' Sylvia's Lovers , ' we have not read a sadder one ..... A ...
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... whole & splendid and most characteristic Portraits , now first issued in a complete form . In demy 4. over 400 pages , cloth gilt and gilt edges , 318. 6d . THE PRINCE OF CARICATURISTS . The WORKS of JAMES GILLRAY , the CARICATURIST ...
... whole & splendid and most characteristic Portraits , now first issued in a complete form . In demy 4. over 400 pages , cloth gilt and gilt edges , 318. 6d . THE PRINCE OF CARICATURISTS . The WORKS of JAMES GILLRAY , the CARICATURIST ...
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