The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 70Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1790 - English literature Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... shall point them out as they occur . The first effay in this volume ( it is the fe- cond in the fixth volume of the Berlin copy ) , is on the forms of government . Union , we are told , was fuggefted to the scatter- ed families , who ...
... shall point them out as they occur . The first effay in this volume ( it is the fe- cond in the fixth volume of the Berlin copy ) , is on the forms of government . Union , we are told , was fuggefted to the scatter- ed families , who ...
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... or propelled by a fimilar power , it becomes more than a word : it is a clue which leads to the moft intricate and interefting dif cuffions . 6 B 3 cuffions . With this guard , we shall venture to Ocuvres Pofthumes de Frederic II . 5.
... or propelled by a fimilar power , it becomes more than a word : it is a clue which leads to the moft intricate and interefting dif cuffions . 6 B 3 cuffions . With this guard , we shall venture to Ocuvres Pofthumes de Frederic II . 5.
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Tobias Smollett. cuffions . With this guard , we shall venture to produce the paf- fage alluded to : Speaking in a philofophic fenfe , we are abfolutely acquaint- ed with no one thing . We fufpect there are certain truths of which we ...
Tobias Smollett. cuffions . With this guard , we shall venture to produce the paf- fage alluded to : Speaking in a philofophic fenfe , we are abfolutely acquaint- ed with no one thing . We fufpect there are certain truths of which we ...
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... shall select , as a favourable ( pecimen of the tranflator's power in preferving the spirit of the original . EPITAPH ON VOLTAIRE . AROUET Voltaire , a poet , lord , and wit , Was , from long habit , fo inclin❜d to cheat That , when he ...
... shall select , as a favourable ( pecimen of the tranflator's power in preferving the spirit of the original . EPITAPH ON VOLTAIRE . AROUET Voltaire , a poet , lord , and wit , Was , from long habit , fo inclin❜d to cheat That , when he ...
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... shall tranfcribe the argument . The marquis de Valory is the hinge on which the poem turns it is fuppofed that he poffeffes from heaven the rare gift of rendering the Pruffian army invincible while he is prefent . The faints , who creep ...
... shall tranfcribe the argument . The marquis de Valory is the hinge on which the poem turns it is fuppofed that he poffeffes from heaven the rare gift of rendering the Pruffian army invincible while he is prefent . The faints , who creep ...
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