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So many curious coincidences occur , where it is impossible to imagine either common descent ( except from our first parents , or from the ark ) or communication ; such wayward and fanciful usages , such strange deviations from the ...
So many curious coincidences occur , where it is impossible to imagine either common descent ( except from our first parents , or from the ark ) or communication ; such wayward and fanciful usages , such strange deviations from the ...
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Some paradoxical writers have attempted to dispute the proofs of cannibalism ; which , if less common than is supposed , appears to us to rest on incontestable evidence in so many quarters of the world . The most amiable scepticism can ...
Some paradoxical writers have attempted to dispute the proofs of cannibalism ; which , if less common than is supposed , appears to us to rest on incontestable evidence in so many quarters of the world . The most amiable scepticism can ...
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Alas ! it is the common error of antiquaries to reckon the worth of the prey by the difficulty of the chace , and to consider that the mere accident of the information existing in manuscript and above all in a manuscript penes me — must ...
Alas ! it is the common error of antiquaries to reckon the worth of the prey by the difficulty of the chace , and to consider that the mere accident of the information existing in manuscript and above all in a manuscript penes me — must ...
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A Description of the Canals and Railroads of | 5 |
IntimeMouvement LittérairePortraits 17891836 | 375 |
426 note omit Madame de St Aignan who was certainly saved | 426 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 73 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1843 |
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