The Quarterly Review, Volume 1William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1809 |
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Page 66
... truth . - In their treatises on geography ' they seem to view the globe through a prism as if adorned with the liveliest colours . Mountains are of solid gold , " bright like ten thousand suns , and others are of precious gems , " Some ...
... truth . - In their treatises on geography ' they seem to view the globe through a prism as if adorned with the liveliest colours . Mountains are of solid gold , " bright like ten thousand suns , and others are of precious gems , " Some ...
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... truth of the History , that while he follows it chap- ter by chapter , and verse by verse , he is compelled to be right . Now then we find , not only that the miracles were real , but that they were known and acknowledged to be such ...
... truth of the History , that while he follows it chap- ter by chapter , and verse by verse , he is compelled to be right . Now then we find , not only that the miracles were real , but that they were known and acknowledged to be such ...
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... truths are so ob- vious , that a child might state them , if he had no interest in per- verting the truth . ' 6 This is selon les regles ; and the art of undervaluing is well understood by most classes of detected plunderers . It has ...
... truths are so ob- vious , that a child might state them , if he had no interest in per- verting the truth . ' 6 This is selon les regles ; and the art of undervaluing is well understood by most classes of detected plunderers . It has ...
Contents
Affaires dEspagne Nos 1 to 5 Confédération | 1 |
Reliques of Robert Burns consisting chiefly of original | 19 |
Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born | 36 |
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