The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 69; Volume 1790Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1790 |
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... called the teftimony of an eye - witnefs . But the Difquifitiones is a Latin abridgement of a French work , and , in the original , the ftory is exprefsly faid to be taken from a MS . and to have happened nearly a hundred years before ...
... called the teftimony of an eye - witnefs . But the Difquifitiones is a Latin abridgement of a French work , and , in the original , the ftory is exprefsly faid to be taken from a MS . and to have happened nearly a hundred years before ...
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... called on ; or to their . flight knowledge for an efcape , if they are called on . If we allow the whole of the argument , we must revert to our firft distinction , that the construction of the words is not greatly connected with their ...
... called on ; or to their . flight knowledge for an efcape , if they are called on . If we allow the whole of the argument , we must revert to our firft distinction , that the construction of the words is not greatly connected with their ...
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... called his torches . The stake might have metaphorically that name ; and a modern French- man might tranflate it , vous ferez figure à la lanterne . We fhall transcribe only a fhort fpecimen of our author's too literal tranflations ...
... called his torches . The stake might have metaphorically that name ; and a modern French- man might tranflate it , vous ferez figure à la lanterne . We fhall transcribe only a fhort fpecimen of our author's too literal tranflations ...
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... called the badun , is an octave below the open diapafon , and has the effect of a double bafe in the chorus . It was in the Lynn orgar that this builder first introduced that sweet stop called the dulciana , which he and Green have ...
... called the badun , is an octave below the open diapafon , and has the effect of a double bafe in the chorus . It was in the Lynn orgar that this builder first introduced that sweet stop called the dulciana , which he and Green have ...
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... called the Mafick - fchool . over against the George taverne , in White Fryers , this prefent Monday , will be Mufick perform- ed by excellent mafters , beginning precifely at four of the clock in the afternoon , and every afternoon for ...
... called the Mafick - fchool . over against the George taverne , in White Fryers , this prefent Monday , will be Mufick perform- ed by excellent mafters , beginning precifely at four of the clock in the afternoon , and every afternoon for ...
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