The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 207A. Dodd and A. Smith, 1859 - Early English newspapers The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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... style , are mostly very fine , and superior to anything that has been done since in the same style . The manner in which the dome is managed in some of their " cinque - cento " churches is admirable , and has not been equalled since ...
... style , are mostly very fine , and superior to anything that has been done since in the same style . The manner in which the dome is managed in some of their " cinque - cento " churches is admirable , and has not been equalled since ...
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... style , with round arches , the use of which appears never to have been discontinued in Rome or in other parts of Central Italy . The campaniles , or bell - towers of Rome , are all built on the same type . There are said to be upwards ...
... style , with round arches , the use of which appears never to have been discontinued in Rome or in other parts of Central Italy . The campaniles , or bell - towers of Rome , are all built on the same type . There are said to be upwards ...
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... to shape his thoughts or style to pattern . " Although writing for a dictionary , he was not haunted , " his biographer affectionately tells us , " by the fear of prigs and 1859. ] 41 Memoirs of James Wilson , Esq . , of Woodville .
... to shape his thoughts or style to pattern . " Although writing for a dictionary , he was not haunted , " his biographer affectionately tells us , " by the fear of prigs and 1859. ] 41 Memoirs of James Wilson , Esq . , of Woodville .
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... style , with carved bulging legs , are preserved in the Churches of Lap- worth , Rowington , and Knowle , Warwick- shire , in St. Thomas's Church , Oxford , and in many other churches . Sometimes the bulging pillar - legs are turned ...
... style , with carved bulging legs , are preserved in the Churches of Lap- worth , Rowington , and Knowle , Warwick- shire , in St. Thomas's Church , Oxford , and in many other churches . Sometimes the bulging pillar - legs are turned ...
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... style , and , in the eleventh volume of the Selec- tions , there are essays on these subjects which bear ample witness to the accuracy of that supposition . In the paper on " John Keats , " in a fine passage which scarcely exaggerates ...
... style , and , in the eleventh volume of the Selec- tions , there are essays on these subjects which bear ample witness to the accuracy of that supposition . In the paper on " John Keats , " in a fine passage which scarcely exaggerates ...
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Page 34 - ... Those from the drift are, on the contrary, never ground, and are exclusively of flint. They have, indeed, every appearance of having been fabricated by another race of men, who, from the fact that the Celtic stone weapons have been found in the superficial soil above the drift containing these ruder weapons, as well as from other considerations, must have inhabited this region of the globe at a period anterior to its so-called Celtic occupation.
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Page 123 - The axe then did at one blow cut off more learning than was in the heads of all the surviving nobility.