The North American Review, Volume 64Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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With these I shall raise the royal standard , and announce to Great Britain that Charles Stuart is come to reclaim the crown of his ancestors , or perish in the attempt . Lochiel , whose faith and friendship my father has so often ...
With these I shall raise the royal standard , and announce to Great Britain that Charles Stuart is come to reclaim the crown of his ancestors , or perish in the attempt . Lochiel , whose faith and friendship my father has so often ...
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Another exile , by the name of Wogan , agreed to share the hazards of the attempt ; and to complete the party , they took with them a Captain Toole and Major Wisset and his wife . An Austrian passport was obtained for the Count de ...
Another exile , by the name of Wogan , agreed to share the hazards of the attempt ; and to complete the party , they took with them a Captain Toole and Major Wisset and his wife . An Austrian passport was obtained for the Count de ...
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... in the interval , fulfil her oft - repeated promises of support , there was every reason to hope that he might open the campaign with the defeat of Cumberland , and renew , under better auspices , his attempt upon England .
... in the interval , fulfil her oft - repeated promises of support , there was every reason to hope that he might open the campaign with the defeat of Cumberland , and renew , under better auspices , his attempt upon England .
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melancholy than the contrast which the following little sketch , which we translate from the autobiography of Domenico Corzi , offers with the scenes that we have attempted to trace in the first pages of the present paper .
melancholy than the contrast which the following little sketch , which we translate from the autobiography of Domenico Corzi , offers with the scenes that we have attempted to trace in the first pages of the present paper .
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Let the attempt be made to record the sayings of any other master of conversation , - Sir James Mackintosh , for example , — and one easily sees that in these social efforts Johnson has no brother near his throne .
Let the attempt be made to record the sayings of any other master of conversation , - Sir James Mackintosh , for example , — and one easily sees that in these social efforts Johnson has no brother near his throne .
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