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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... examine the manners and cuftoms , to delineate the human heart , and to fee it under different difguifes , but ftill poffeffing the fame generous propenfities , the fame virtues , and the fame weakneffes . His mind is en lightened , and ...
... examine the manners and cuftoms , to delineate the human heart , and to fee it under different difguifes , but ftill poffeffing the fame generous propenfities , the fame virtues , and the fame weakneffes . His mind is en lightened , and ...
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... examined the different races of mankind , the great families which have contributed to people the earth , must have been ftruck with the extenfive fettlements of the Tar- tars . Perhaps they are the moft numerous family that we are yet ...
... examined the different races of mankind , the great families which have contributed to people the earth , must have been ftruck with the extenfive fettlements of the Tar- tars . Perhaps they are the moft numerous family that we are yet ...
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... examined the favage ftate in general , and to have obferved in what circumstances thefe amufements are most frequent . Many favages , after fatisfy- ing their appetites , fink into the moft torpid infenfibility , till new calls rouse ...
... examined the favage ftate in general , and to have obferved in what circumstances thefe amufements are most frequent . Many favages , after fatisfy- ing their appetites , fink into the moft torpid infenfibility , till new calls rouse ...
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... examined : it is however nearly allied to the lycoperdon . It has not been before noticed , becaufe its growth is very rapid , and its volva generally buried from fix to eight inches in the earth . Plants have been found in a decaying ...
... examined : it is however nearly allied to the lycoperdon . It has not been before noticed , becaufe its growth is very rapid , and its volva generally buried from fix to eight inches in the earth . Plants have been found in a decaying ...
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... examined this fubject by experiment , and found that even one twenty - fourth part of tin did no very effential injury to the malleability of gold , and the fumes had no ef- fect . The mixtures grew more hard and harsh , in propor- tion ...
... examined this fubject by experiment , and found that even one twenty - fourth part of tin did no very effential injury to the malleability of gold , and the fumes had no ef- fect . The mixtures grew more hard and harsh , in propor- tion ...
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