The Twentieth Century, Volume 21Nineteenth Century and After, 1887 |
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... observe with warm satisfaction that , although the new Locksley Hall is , as told by the Calendar , a work of Lord Tennyson's old age , yet is his poetic eye not dim , nor his natural force abated . ' The date of Waverley was fixed by ...
... observe with warm satisfaction that , although the new Locksley Hall is , as told by the Calendar , a work of Lord Tennyson's old age , yet is his poetic eye not dim , nor his natural force abated . ' The date of Waverley was fixed by ...
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... observe that , in the sphere of the State , the business of the last half - century has been in the main a process of setting free the individual man , that he may work out his vocation without wanton hindrance , as his Maker will have ...
... observe that , in the sphere of the State , the business of the last half - century has been in the main a process of setting free the individual man , that he may work out his vocation without wanton hindrance , as his Maker will have ...
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... observe that this stinted vitality can strike like a spent cannon - ball . But at all events we must in this view not merely accept , we must carry along with us in living consciousness , the proposition that the poems are purely ...
... observe that this stinted vitality can strike like a spent cannon - ball . But at all events we must in this view not merely accept , we must carry along with us in living consciousness , the proposition that the poems are purely ...
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... observe - dug up at Thetford , in the year 1340 , and which was worth at least one hundred pounds , which they could not in the joy of their proud hearts hold their tongues about , which they forthwith began to spend in riotous fashion ...
... observe - dug up at Thetford , in the year 1340 , and which was worth at least one hundred pounds , which they could not in the joy of their proud hearts hold their tongues about , which they forthwith began to spend in riotous fashion ...
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... observed that , according to my argument , the theory of natural selection is a theory of the accumulative develop- ment of adaptations ( whether these happen to be distinctive of species , genera , families , or higher taxonomic ...
... observed that , according to my argument , the theory of natural selection is a theory of the accumulative develop- ment of adaptations ( whether these happen to be distinctive of species , genera , families , or higher taxonomic ...
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