The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William 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, 1811 |
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... labour ; but the fact is otherwise . Amidst the many splendid works , of a scientific or descriptive nature , poured forth from time to time by the Pa- risian press , though there are not a few , particularly in the descrip- tive ...
... labour ; but the fact is otherwise . Amidst the many splendid works , of a scientific or descriptive nature , poured forth from time to time by the Pa- risian press , though there are not a few , particularly in the descrip- tive ...
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... labour in proving what never was controverted , he has begged the whole of the question really at issue . When it is affirmed , by VOL , V. NO . IX . 2 the followers of Newton , to be highly improbable that 1811 , Clavier - Histoire des ...
... labour in proving what never was controverted , he has begged the whole of the question really at issue . When it is affirmed , by VOL , V. NO . IX . 2 the followers of Newton , to be highly improbable that 1811 , Clavier - Histoire des ...
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... that it probably would be a task of some little labour to discover six other such exceptions to it , at whatever dis- tance from each other , throughout the whole extent of 1811. Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . 11.
... that it probably would be a task of some little labour to discover six other such exceptions to it , at whatever dis- tance from each other , throughout the whole extent of 1811. Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . 11.
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... labours of Bossu , so admirably ridi- culed by Pope , have added one readable poem to the literature of France or England ? The harp of Mincio has made miserable music in the hands of Voltaire , Blackmore , and later worthies ; and we ...
... labours of Bossu , so admirably ridi- culed by Pope , have added one readable poem to the literature of France or England ? The harp of Mincio has made miserable music in the hands of Voltaire , Blackmore , and later worthies ; and we ...
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... labours of a few literati , is not only curious , as one of the most ancient existing superstitions , but particularly interest- ing , as regulating the religious belief and moral practice of mil- lions whom treaty or conquest has ...
... labours of a few literati , is not only curious , as one of the most ancient existing superstitions , but particularly interest- ing , as regulating the religious belief and moral practice of mil- lions whom treaty or conquest has ...
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