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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... produced by the degree and duration of heat and cold , by the effects of moisture more or lefs combined with them . Yet in America there are parts as fwampy , as the banks of the Gambia , and deferts as dry and torrid as thofe of ...
... produced by the degree and duration of heat and cold , by the effects of moisture more or lefs combined with them . Yet in America there are parts as fwampy , as the banks of the Gambia , and deferts as dry and torrid as thofe of ...
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... produced females who would , without a blush , betroth their faith to a dozen boiftrous fellows at a time . ' Akbur then paffes to China , and gives a favourable account of this peculiar people ; an account the more valuable , as he ...
... produced females who would , without a blush , betroth their faith to a dozen boiftrous fellows at a time . ' Akbur then paffes to China , and gives a favourable account of this peculiar people ; an account the more valuable , as he ...
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... produce a diftant refemblance of a human figure , or to combine in one heterogeneous body what nature had never yet formed . It is time to discard the childish pre- poffeffions in favour of this peculiar nation , whofe pretenfions are ...
... produce a diftant refemblance of a human figure , or to combine in one heterogeneous body what nature had never yet formed . It is time to discard the childish pre- poffeffions in favour of this peculiar nation , whofe pretenfions are ...
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... producing a difference in the external appearance , answerable to that which characterises the inha- bitants of the different regions of the earth . We do not fuf- pect our author of having artfully increased the difficulty , by veiling ...
... producing a difference in the external appearance , answerable to that which characterises the inha- bitants of the different regions of the earth . We do not fuf- pect our author of having artfully increased the difficulty , by veiling ...
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... produce a reform . The vanity of an enamour- ed female may flatter her , that her amiable qualities will effect a reformation ; but experience tells us , that the reformation must go deeper than that which is only the momentary effect ...
... produce a reform . The vanity of an enamour- ed female may flatter her , that her amiable qualities will effect a reformation ; but experience tells us , that the reformation must go deeper than that which is only the momentary effect ...
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