The Quarterly Review, Volume 11William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1814 |
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... containing an Account of the Government , Laws , and Religion ; the Manners , Ceremonies , and Character of the Inha- bitants ; and demonstrating the Importance of these valuable Islands to the British Empire . · XIV . Experimental ...
... containing an Account of the Government , Laws , and Religion ; the Manners , Ceremonies , and Character of the Inha- bitants ; and demonstrating the Importance of these valuable Islands to the British Empire . · XIV . Experimental ...
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... contain have arisen more or less immediately from the prosecution , in the different parts of Eu- rope , of the important discoveries of Mr. Malus , respecting the pro- perties exhibited by light which has been subjected to oblique re ...
... contain have arisen more or less immediately from the prosecution , in the different parts of Eu- rope , of the important discoveries of Mr. Malus , respecting the pro- perties exhibited by light which has been subjected to oblique re ...
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... contain any material novelty . He has examined the forms of the principal refracting substances by means of a reflective goniometer , resembling Dr. Wallaston's ; and he has taken the mean of a considerable number of succes- sive ...
... contain any material novelty . He has examined the forms of the principal refracting substances by means of a reflective goniometer , resembling Dr. Wallaston's ; and he has taken the mean of a considerable number of succes- sive ...
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... contain- ing a farinaceous substance both palatable and nutritive in a high degree , would perhaps if it were common in these provinces , for ever secure the natives of them from famine . ' The villages are small , generally built upon ...
... contain- ing a farinaceous substance both palatable and nutritive in a high degree , would perhaps if it were common in these provinces , for ever secure the natives of them from famine . ' The villages are small , generally built upon ...
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... contain abso- lutely nothing to justify their publication . Of his public transac- tions , or of his private sentiments of public affairs they furnish no memorial ; -they are the mere records of the transient clouds of his temper , of ...
... contain abso- lutely nothing to justify their publication . Of his public transac- tions , or of his private sentiments of public affairs they furnish no memorial ; -they are the mere records of the transient clouds of his temper , of ...
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