The Quarterly Review, Volume 238John Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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... to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which History has the power to inflict , ' then there is the more reason for Clio , should she , too , wish to serve the State , to be up and doing in a world where every hour ...
... to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which History has the power to inflict , ' then there is the more reason for Clio , should she , too , wish to serve the State , to be up and doing in a world where every hour ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 238 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1922 |
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