The Quarterly Review, Volume 30William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1824 |
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... reason to detest me as the cause of so great a calamity .'- It appears , however , from Linnæus that the creature has been imported into the south of Europe . 6 A great interchange of incommodities is unwittingly carried on wherever ...
... reason to detest me as the cause of so great a calamity .'- It appears , however , from Linnæus that the creature has been imported into the south of Europe . 6 A great interchange of incommodities is unwittingly carried on wherever ...
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... reasons which he assigns are given in his own words , because they may fitly be made the sub- ject of experiment . ' A number of years since , I put a quantity of ground pepper into a tumbler of water ; and a few days afterwards , found ...
... reasons which he assigns are given in his own words , because they may fitly be made the sub- ject of experiment . ' A number of years since , I put a quantity of ground pepper into a tumbler of water ; and a few days afterwards , found ...
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... reason of its own weight . ' The same effect , he shews , is not produced by other dressings which are less stimulant . A notion akin to this has been advanced in this country , that artificial pastures being thus forced are less ...
... reason of its own weight . ' The same effect , he shews , is not produced by other dressings which are less stimulant . A notion akin to this has been advanced in this country , that artificial pastures being thus forced are less ...
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... reason , why the position and appearance of the spot continued unchanged .'- vol . ii . p . 95 . About twelve months afterwards he saw a similar phenomenon over the mountain Taghkanne . The luminous spot continued fixed in its relative ...
... reason , why the position and appearance of the spot continued unchanged .'- vol . ii . p . 95 . About twelve months afterwards he saw a similar phenomenon over the mountain Taghkanne . The luminous spot continued fixed in its relative ...
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... reason to fear that it would pervade the Union ; for , beginning in Connecticut in 1812 , it had , in the course of three years , spread extensively over Virginia and Ohio . An opinion has been advanced by Dr. Holyoke , of Salem , that ...
... reason to fear that it would pervade the Union ; for , beginning in Connecticut in 1812 , it had , in the course of three years , spread extensively over Virginia and Ohio . An opinion has been advanced by Dr. Holyoke , of Salem , that ...
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