The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 60Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1785 - English literature Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... subjects of his work , are fo ultimately connected ' as to become an unity . ' That plantations are a part of thofe ornaments , which modern tafte has admitted into gardens may be allowed , and confequently that they are nearly allied ...
... subjects of his work , are fo ultimately connected ' as to become an unity . ' That plantations are a part of thofe ornaments , which modern tafte has admitted into gardens may be allowed , and confequently that they are nearly allied ...
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... subject : they want not our re- commendation . Our In the lower claffes of rural improvements , art should be feen as little as may be ; and in the more negligent fcenes of nature , every thing ought to appear as if it had been done by ...
... subject : they want not our re- commendation . Our In the lower claffes of rural improvements , art should be feen as little as may be ; and in the more negligent fcenes of nature , every thing ought to appear as if it had been done by ...
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... subject itself ; hence they afford a tem- porary triumph to the fceptic or the libertine , by the weak- nefs of an injudicious defence . The author apologises for mixing politics with ethics , and for not quoting authorities . That a ...
... subject itself ; hence they afford a tem- porary triumph to the fceptic or the libertine , by the weak- nefs of an injudicious defence . The author apologises for mixing politics with ethics , and for not quoting authorities . That a ...
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... entertaining and inftructive : if he does not pene- trate the depth of his subject , and strike us with astonishment 6 at the novelty and comprehenfion of his ideas , D 3 at Gregory's Hiftorical and Moral Effays . 37.
... entertaining and inftructive : if he does not pene- trate the depth of his subject , and strike us with astonishment 6 at the novelty and comprehenfion of his ideas , D 3 at Gregory's Hiftorical and Moral Effays . 37.
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... subject , in a future es- fay ; and then alleges a ftrong argument in its favour , viz . the fertility of children , born from a mixed race ; the con- trary is , we know , obferved in animals of different species . This fact of natural ...
... subject , in a future es- fay ; and then alleges a ftrong argument in its favour , viz . the fertility of children , born from a mixed race ; the con- trary is , we know , obferved in animals of different species . This fact of natural ...
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