Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 142William Blackwood, 1887 - England |
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... England by herself , having come home for her health , some wicked person put it into the poor thing's head that her marriage was not a good one . She was fool enough to believe it , though she knew Henry . Forgive me if I speak a ...
... England by herself , having come home for her health , some wicked person put it into the poor thing's head that her marriage was not a good one . She was fool enough to believe it , though she knew Henry . Forgive me if I speak a ...
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... England . In fact , cramped between the steep walls of that rocky chasm , it has never had room for expansion . Even now it is some fourteen miles from the near- est railway , and the only roads by which it may be reached come to an ...
... England . In fact , cramped between the steep walls of that rocky chasm , it has never had room for expansion . Even now it is some fourteen miles from the near- est railway , and the only roads by which it may be reached come to an ...
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... England , and how vain it is to hope that equal re- sults can be produced , save in ex- ceptional cases , in the very much more limited time which is devoted to the study of classics in this country . We have seen the ab- surdity of ...
... England , and how vain it is to hope that equal re- sults can be produced , save in ex- ceptional cases , in the very much more limited time which is devoted to the study of classics in this country . We have seen the ab- surdity of ...
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... England , and this is probably an advantage . The Scotch course ends earlier : few scholars remain at school after seventeen , and not many after sixteen years of age . The consequence is that the scholars have not read nearly as much ...
... England , and this is probably an advantage . The Scotch course ends earlier : few scholars remain at school after seventeen , and not many after sixteen years of age . The consequence is that the scholars have not read nearly as much ...
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... England's colonial em- pire had begun to grow unwieldy , and to involve the mother country in frequent hostilities , first with foreigners , and by - and - by with the colonists themselves . The Home Secretary , as he is now called , to ...
... England's colonial em- pire had begun to grow unwieldy , and to involve the mother country in frequent hostilities , first with foreigners , and by - and - by with the colonists themselves . The Home Secretary , as he is now called , to ...
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