The Quarterly Review, Volume 4William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1810 |
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Page 352
... Chalmers has laboured to demonstrate by many remains in the modern language of the lowlands , and has successfully demonstrated by a multitude of examples drawn from the names of rivers , mountains , & c . that the Pictish dialect was ...
... Chalmers has laboured to demonstrate by many remains in the modern language of the lowlands , and has successfully demonstrated by a multitude of examples drawn from the names of rivers , mountains , & c . that the Pictish dialect was ...
Page 353
... Chalmers , with equal industry and much more perspicacity , has , in the compass of a single chapter , condensed the matter of folios . We consider this chapter as one of the most masterly in the whole work . Chapter III , entitled the ...
... Chalmers , with equal industry and much more perspicacity , has , in the compass of a single chapter , condensed the matter of folios . We consider this chapter as one of the most masterly in the whole work . Chapter III , entitled the ...
Page 359
... Chalmers , that he repeats , it about twenty times . The first stratum of names on the map of North Britain is Cambro - British ; the second stratum superin- ducted upon the former , & c . ' p . 229. " His precursor had already done so ...
... Chalmers , that he repeats , it about twenty times . The first stratum of names on the map of North Britain is Cambro - British ; the second stratum superin- ducted upon the former , & c . ' p . 229. " His precursor had already done so ...
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Alicia Tindal Palmer | 61 |
Reasons for declining to become a Subscriber to | 68 |
Travels in various Countries of Europe Asia | 111 |
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