The New Monthly Magazine and Literary JournalHenry Colburn and Company, 1825 - English literature |
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... scarcely a third part of the territory in Greece that Lacedæmon possessed , kept her illiterate enemy so long at bay . Happier still it would have been if the Greek states , improving on that dawn of federal union which appears in the ...
... scarcely a third part of the territory in Greece that Lacedæmon possessed , kept her illiterate enemy so long at bay . Happier still it would have been if the Greek states , improving on that dawn of federal union which appears in the ...
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... scarcely cultivated one art or science to mitigate human misery , and eagerly cultivated those pursuits which inflicted it ? What respect is due to a nation that left nothing to benefit posterity , and who were so illiterate that we owe ...
... scarcely cultivated one art or science to mitigate human misery , and eagerly cultivated those pursuits which inflicted it ? What respect is due to a nation that left nothing to benefit posterity , and who were so illiterate that we owe ...
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... scarcely any thing overstrained or extravagant in expression , through the whole series . He somewhat resembles the great novelist of Scotland in the healthful feeling which breathes through his delineations , in the vigour of his ...
... scarcely any thing overstrained or extravagant in expression , through the whole series . He somewhat resembles the great novelist of Scotland in the healthful feeling which breathes through his delineations , in the vigour of his ...
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... scarcely capable of exertion ; but the old man , rousing up all his wrath and courage for the onset , approached the cave , and with loud shouts of defiance , endeavoured to stir up the savage animal's rage . The summons was no sooner ...
... scarcely capable of exertion ; but the old man , rousing up all his wrath and courage for the onset , approached the cave , and with loud shouts of defiance , endeavoured to stir up the savage animal's rage . The summons was no sooner ...
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... scarcely knowing what to do or to think . Sorrow was new to him , and the blow was heavy . The French Revolution found him in this serious frame of mind , and he was ever afterwards one of the most thoughtful of us . The natural ...
... scarcely knowing what to do or to think . Sorrow was new to him , and the blow was heavy . The French Revolution found him in this serious frame of mind , and he was ever afterwards one of the most thoughtful of us . The natural ...
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