The Quarterly Review, Volume 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1815 |
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... readers , they would be uninteresting , and in a great part un- intelligible , though to the practical St. Helena farmer , they must have been very useful and necessary , as our readers will judge when we acquaint them that , though it ...
... readers , they would be uninteresting , and in a great part un- intelligible , though to the practical St. Helena farmer , they must have been very useful and necessary , as our readers will judge when we acquaint them that , though it ...
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... readers like pic- tures constructed upon false principles of perspective , and whatever resemblance they may bear to objects as they appeared to his own mind , may bear no more resemblance to objects as they appear in nature than the ...
... readers like pic- tures constructed upon false principles of perspective , and whatever resemblance they may bear to objects as they appeared to his own mind , may bear no more resemblance to objects as they appear in nature than the ...
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... readers with the Baron's account of himself from his boyish days , ' - his thirst after foreign travel , his disappointment in not going to Egypt - in not joining the expedition to New Holland under Captain Baudin - in not embarking for ...
... readers with the Baron's account of himself from his boyish days , ' - his thirst after foreign travel , his disappointment in not going to Egypt - in not joining the expedition to New Holland under Captain Baudin - in not embarking for ...
Contents
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
The Character of Moses established for Veracity as a Historian | 96 |
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