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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... directed the researches of the lear- ned . They bid us ascend to a period of the remotest , even of unknown antiquity , when the Celtic nation , ( whose language , if not primitive in an absolute sense , is so at least relatively to ...
... directed the researches of the lear- ned . They bid us ascend to a period of the remotest , even of unknown antiquity , when the Celtic nation , ( whose language , if not primitive in an absolute sense , is so at least relatively to ...
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... directed to the Huygenian theory by an earlier paper published in the same volume of the Philosophical Transactions with his own , in which it is asserted , almost in the terms that Mr. Malus has employed , that Newton , without ...
... directed to the Huygenian theory by an earlier paper published in the same volume of the Philosophical Transactions with his own , in which it is asserted , almost in the terms that Mr. Malus has employed , that Newton , without ...
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... directed to a star towards which the earth is moving , ( p . 221 ) : it was not from the different distances of the stars , but from the difference of the relative velocities of light , that they argued , ac- cording to the general ...
... directed to a star towards which the earth is moving , ( p . 221 ) : it was not from the different distances of the stars , but from the difference of the relative velocities of light , that they argued , ac- cording to the general ...
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... directed , and it is noticed by two of the travellers whose works we have under review . If the sink- ing of the water in this quarter has continued in regular propor- tion from the earliest times , at the period when Pliny wrote , the ...
... directed , and it is noticed by two of the travellers whose works we have under review . If the sink- ing of the water in this quarter has continued in regular propor- tion from the earliest times , at the period when Pliny wrote , the ...
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... directed to the meadow on the other side of the river . ' The boors suddenly made their appearance on the rocks in every direction ; they closed up every avenue of advance ; they prevented Sinclair fell in the foremost ranks , and the ...
... directed to the meadow on the other side of the river . ' The boors suddenly made their appearance on the rocks in every direction ; they closed up every avenue of advance ; they prevented Sinclair fell in the foremost ranks , and the ...
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