The Quarterly Review, Том 37William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1828 |
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... evil , and seriously felt as such ; but it is one , we fear , difficult , if not impossible , to remedy . It might , perhaps , be diminished to a certain extent , by abolishing penitentiaries and asylums for the reformation of female ...
... evil , and seriously felt as such ; but it is one , we fear , difficult , if not impossible , to remedy . It might , perhaps , be diminished to a certain extent , by abolishing penitentiaries and asylums for the reformation of female ...
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... evil , from preaching the gospel within sight of its bloody shrines . As things are now , ' says Lucian , in one of his epistles , ' every man is , as the proverb has it , an ant or a camel ; ' and the saying is a key to the history of ...
... evil , from preaching the gospel within sight of its bloody shrines . As things are now , ' says Lucian , in one of his epistles , ' every man is , as the proverb has it , an ant or a camel ; ' and the saying is a key to the history of ...
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... evil that was in store for them . The fact , however , seems to have been , that before the discovery of the art of printing , manuscripts were chiefly in possession of the monks , who bought them up with avidity , and purposely stood ...
... evil that was in store for them . The fact , however , seems to have been , that before the discovery of the art of printing , manuscripts were chiefly in possession of the monks , who bought them up with avidity , and purposely stood ...
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... Evil as the system was , it was far from a system of unmixed evil . Many of its incentives to devotion were admi- rably contrived to answer their end ; and some , which were con- genial to the habits and feelings of the people , have ...
... Evil as the system was , it was far from a system of unmixed evil . Many of its incentives to devotion were admi- rably contrived to answer their end ; and some , which were con- genial to the habits and feelings of the people , have ...
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... evil eye which blighted their corn , and blasted their olive - yards , and sent a murrain among their cattle , and destroyed their substance . Other means , even more unjustifi- able than these , were occasionally resorted to . A rich ...
... evil eye which blighted their corn , and blasted their olive - yards , and sent a murrain among their cattle , and destroyed their substance . Other means , even more unjustifi- able than these , were occasionally resorted to . A rich ...
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