The Quarterly Review, Volumen192William 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 John Murray, 1900 |
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... EARLY SCOTTISH HISTORY 1. History of Scotland . Vol . I. To the Accession of Mary Stewart . By P. Hume Brown . Cambridge University Press , 1899 . 2. A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation . By Andrew Lang . Vol . I. Edinburgh ...
... EARLY SCOTTISH HISTORY 1. History of Scotland . Vol . I. To the Accession of Mary Stewart . By P. Hume Brown . Cambridge University Press , 1899 . 2. A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation . By Andrew Lang . Vol . I. Edinburgh ...
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... early polity of the English and Dutch settlements in South Africa . If the con- clusions which must be drawn from the historian's impartial narrative are favourable or unfavourable to the contentions of one side or the other in the ...
... early polity of the English and Dutch settlements in South Africa . If the con- clusions which must be drawn from the historian's impartial narrative are favourable or unfavourable to the contentions of one side or the other in the ...
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... early Governors were unduly optimistic as to the immediate results of their conciliatory measures , but at least they did not allow those measures to be set at naught by the restless spirits on either side of the frontier . Unhappily ...
... early Governors were unduly optimistic as to the immediate results of their conciliatory measures , but at least they did not allow those measures to be set at naught by the restless spirits on either side of the frontier . Unhappily ...
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... early period was this : that these frontier farmers ' too often provoked the natives ' by acts of wanton aggression in defiance of repeated edicts , and that they were suffering the consequences of their own imprudence . We are far from ...
... early period was this : that these frontier farmers ' too often provoked the natives ' by acts of wanton aggression in defiance of repeated edicts , and that they were suffering the consequences of their own imprudence . We are far from ...
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... early as the first canto of Childe Harold ' ; and a motto to the third canto , seven years later , is a quotation from a letter of Frederick the Great to D'Alembert , endeavouring to console him for the loss of Mlle . de Lespinasse ...
... early as the first canto of Childe Harold ' ; and a motto to the third canto , seven years later , is a quotation from a letter of Frederick the Great to D'Alembert , endeavouring to console him for the loss of Mlle . de Lespinasse ...
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