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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... fome of the nebula were compofed . This powerful telescope has feparated many of these clusters into their component ftars ; and the milky- way appears , through it , to be of the fame kind . From an actual enumeration of fome fields of ...
... fome of the nebula were compofed . This powerful telescope has feparated many of these clusters into their component ftars ; and the milky- way appears , through it , to be of the fame kind . From an actual enumeration of fome fields of ...
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... fome of the more ufeful exotics , the re- marks are either his own , or contain fuch additions as have refulted from his own obfervation and experience . The de- fcription and management of ornamental exotics is , in sub- ftance , taken ...
... fome of the more ufeful exotics , the re- marks are either his own , or contain fuch additions as have refulted from his own obfervation and experience . The de- fcription and management of ornamental exotics is , in sub- ftance , taken ...
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... fome foundation for their opinion , and that the day of want is not near . At fome future opportu nity we may endeavour to reduce to a degree of certainty , what at prefent is , in fome meafure , conjectural . The prefent ftate of this ...
... fome foundation for their opinion , and that the day of want is not near . At fome future opportu nity we may endeavour to reduce to a degree of certainty , what at prefent is , in fome meafure , conjectural . The prefent ftate of this ...
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... fome natural and pleafing object to receive it . Suppose a room to be hung with one continued rural repre- fentation , would pretty pictures be expected ? would correct landscapes be looked for ? Nature fcarcely knows the thing mankind ...
... fome natural and pleafing object to receive it . Suppose a room to be hung with one continued rural repre- fentation , would pretty pictures be expected ? would correct landscapes be looked for ? Nature fcarcely knows the thing mankind ...
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... fome im- portant confequences , which we would recommend to ' thofé who are eager to fupport monopolies ; but unfortunately the defire of gain , or the luft of power , seldom attend to the dic- tates of morality . The third book is on ...
... fome im- portant confequences , which we would recommend to ' thofé who are eager to fupport monopolies ; but unfortunately the defire of gain , or the luft of power , seldom attend to the dic- tates of morality . The third book is on ...
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Page 114 - God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; He had horns coming out of his hand : And there was the hiding of his power.
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Page 17 - are arranged into strata, and run on to a great length ; and some of them I have been able to pursue, and to guess pretty well at their form and direction. It is probable enough that they may surround the whole starry sphere of the heavens, not unlike the Milky Way, which undoubtedly is nothing but a stratum of fixed stars.