The Quarterly Review, Volume 36William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1827 |
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... Scrope and Dr. Daubeny On Volcanos ' came out nearly at the same time , The latter prefaced his able account of active and extinct volcanos by a brief sketch , chiefly derived from ori- ginal observation , of the rocks belonging to both ...
... Scrope and Dr. Daubeny On Volcanos ' came out nearly at the same time , The latter prefaced his able account of active and extinct volcanos by a brief sketch , chiefly derived from ori- ginal observation , of the rocks belonging to both ...
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... Scrope possessed these qualifications in so imperfect a degree as to render all his theories open to general censure , although we object decidedly to many of them , which un- fortunately stand forth most prominent . * We should ...
... Scrope possessed these qualifications in so imperfect a degree as to render all his theories open to general censure , although we object decidedly to many of them , which un- fortunately stand forth most prominent . * We should ...
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... Scrope is attached , the oldest lavas which have flowed at the most distant epochs ought to be so wasted , and the original surface on which they were moulded , so nearly obliterated , that the proofs furnished by them must necessarily ...
... Scrope is attached , the oldest lavas which have flowed at the most distant epochs ought to be so wasted , and the original surface on which they were moulded , so nearly obliterated , that the proofs furnished by them must necessarily ...
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No LXXI | 1 |
The Poetical Works of John Milton with Notes of | 29 |
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone Founder of the United | 61 |
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