The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 21J. Murray, 1793 - Curiosities and wonders |
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... occafion obliquely to animadvert in a note on Mr. Burke's pamphlet . The principles and fentiments , ' he fays , of a pamphlet on the revolution of a neighbouring nation , lately publifhed , and its numerous admirers , fhew , that those ...
... occafion obliquely to animadvert in a note on Mr. Burke's pamphlet . The principles and fentiments , ' he fays , of a pamphlet on the revolution of a neighbouring nation , lately publifhed , and its numerous admirers , fhew , that those ...
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... occafion gave their opinion decidedly against the validity of the patent . Experiments were made laft autumn on the whitening of rags , and fucceeded admirably , though with a very imperfect apparatus . The memorial is printed on the ...
... occafion gave their opinion decidedly against the validity of the patent . Experiments were made laft autumn on the whitening of rags , and fucceeded admirably , though with a very imperfect apparatus . The memorial is printed on the ...
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... occafion . Ovid , it is true , thought it neceffary to introduce all the metamorphofes that were fup- posed to have happened from the beginning of the world to his own time ; and his ingenuity is much admired for the happy manner in ...
... occafion . Ovid , it is true , thought it neceffary to introduce all the metamorphofes that were fup- posed to have happened from the beginning of the world to his own time ; and his ingenuity is much admired for the happy manner in ...
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... occafion expected a more than ordinary ex- ertion of his talents . But this pamphlet is the moft contemptible of the kind that has come to our hands . As if men had nothing at ftake but property , the author cannot fee why any fhould ...
... occafion expected a more than ordinary ex- ertion of his talents . But this pamphlet is the moft contemptible of the kind that has come to our hands . As if men had nothing at ftake but property , the author cannot fee why any fhould ...
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... occafion to be the friend of Africa . The talents of the au- thor are not fo great as his humanity ; for the fake of that cause for which he is an advocate , we wish they were as confpicuous . ART . 41. Prepoffeffion ; or , Memoirs of ...
... occafion to be the friend of Africa . The talents of the au- thor are not fo great as his humanity ; for the fake of that cause for which he is an advocate , we wish they were as confpicuous . ART . 41. Prepoffeffion ; or , Memoirs of ...
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