The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 71A. Constable, 1840 |
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... remarkable in English story . He acted a part in all the various functions of public life , military , naval , and civil ; and was illustrious in all . He was a projector on the grandest scale , an improver of naval architecture , a ...
... remarkable in English story . He acted a part in all the various functions of public life , military , naval , and civil ; and was illustrious in all . He was a projector on the grandest scale , an improver of naval architecture , a ...
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... remarkable for enviable success and pitiable reverses . Raised to eminent station through the favour of the greatest female sovereign of Eng- land , he perished on the scaffold through the dislike and cowardly policy of the meanest of ...
... remarkable for enviable success and pitiable reverses . Raised to eminent station through the favour of the greatest female sovereign of Eng- land , he perished on the scaffold through the dislike and cowardly policy of the meanest of ...
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... remarkable for his imposing ex- terior . The romantic incident detailed by Fuller as the imme- diate cause of Raleigh's introduction to and favour with the Queen , is known to all readers of history ; and it presents to the imagination ...
... remarkable for his imposing ex- terior . The romantic incident detailed by Fuller as the imme- diate cause of Raleigh's introduction to and favour with the Queen , is known to all readers of history ; and it presents to the imagination ...
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... remarkable productions for their day . Harriot's name is well known as one of the most illustrious of the early mathematicians of England ; but he appears to have also possessed large views in regard to the extension of industry and ...
... remarkable productions for their day . Harriot's name is well known as one of the most illustrious of the early mathematicians of England ; but he appears to have also possessed large views in regard to the extension of industry and ...
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... remarkable mines hath France , Belgia , Lom- bardy ? What this , our fertile mother England ? Do we not ' see that the silks , calicoes , drugs , and spices of the East , swallow ' up all the mines of the West ? ' These strike us as ...
... remarkable mines hath France , Belgia , Lom- bardy ? What this , our fertile mother England ? Do we not ' see that the silks , calicoes , drugs , and spices of the East , swallow ' up all the mines of the West ? ' These strike us as ...
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