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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... discovered any speci- mens of that severe , yet energetic tone , the voice of nature her- self , by which the reader is irresistibly struck even on approach- ing the vestibule of his immortal fabric ? It is in language like this , ( of ...
... discovered any speci- mens of that severe , yet energetic tone , the voice of nature her- self , by which the reader is irresistibly struck even on approach- ing the vestibule of his immortal fabric ? It is in language like this , ( of ...
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... discovered in it a fault of conception , which we are not altogether disposed to admit . It is in the lines , Fece mi la divina potestate , La somma sapientia e il primo amore . ' Divine power and supreme wisdom may , observes M ...
... discovered in it a fault of conception , which we are not altogether disposed to admit . It is in the lines , Fece mi la divina potestate , La somma sapientia e il primo amore . ' Divine power and supreme wisdom may , observes M ...
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... discovered , in 1811 , that polarised light was re- solved , by passing through thin plates of mica or sulfate of lime , or thicker plates of rock crystal , and of some kinds of flint glass , into two portions differently coloured . Mr ...
... discovered , in 1811 , that polarised light was re- solved , by passing through thin plates of mica or sulfate of lime , or thicker plates of rock crystal , and of some kinds of flint glass , into two portions differently coloured . Mr ...
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... discovered the law of these remarkable phenomena . ' This ' law ' however is merely an expression of the facts considered as insu- lated from all others ; and not an explanation by which they are reduced to an analogy with any more ...
... discovered the law of these remarkable phenomena . ' This ' law ' however is merely an expression of the facts considered as insu- lated from all others ; and not an explanation by which they are reduced to an analogy with any more ...
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... discovered some time since by Professor Chladni ; but which appear to have a still nearer resemblance to those which Comparetti has described , as produced by the ad- : mission of a beam of light into a dark 52 APR . Malus , Biot and ...
... discovered some time since by Professor Chladni ; but which appear to have a still nearer resemblance to those which Comparetti has described , as produced by the ad- : mission of a beam of light into a dark 52 APR . Malus , Biot and ...
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