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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... support of which opinion he produces a paffage from Horace . But he evinces , by the authority of Martial , that towards the end of the first century , the prevailing tafte was to have clipt box amongst myrtles and planes . About the ...
... support of which opinion he produces a paffage from Horace . But he evinces , by the authority of Martial , that towards the end of the first century , the prevailing tafte was to have clipt box amongst myrtles and planes . About the ...
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... supported . Through the feveral remaining Effays contained in this vo lume Mr. Grant purfues his inveitigation with much ingenuity . He adheres to nature in developing the gradual progrefs of inftitutions refpecting property ...
... supported . Through the feveral remaining Effays contained in this vo lume Mr. Grant purfues his inveitigation with much ingenuity . He adheres to nature in developing the gradual progrefs of inftitutions refpecting property ...
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... port to , if the fact should appear capable of supporting , his lyftem . To others it may be a fubject worth examination . A Viera A View of the Arts and Sciences , from the Remarks on the Difeafe lately defcribed by Dr. Hendy .
... port to , if the fact should appear capable of supporting , his lyftem . To others it may be a fubject worth examination . A Viera A View of the Arts and Sciences , from the Remarks on the Difeafe lately defcribed by Dr. Hendy .
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... supported by Mr. Denne . Art . XXX . A Letter from Governor Pownall to the Rev. Michael Lort , D. D. inclofing Mr. Ledwich's Letter on the Ship Temples in Ireland . - The following is the description . of a monument , fuppofed to be of ...
... supported by Mr. Denne . Art . XXX . A Letter from Governor Pownall to the Rev. Michael Lort , D. D. inclofing Mr. Ledwich's Letter on the Ship Temples in Ireland . - The following is the description . of a monument , fuppofed to be of ...
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... support . Doutes d'un Provincial propofés a Meficurs Les Medicins Commif- faires . 8vo . Lyons and Paris . THIS work profeffedly contains the doubts of a provincial , who anfwers for nothing but his doubts . The difguife is well put on ...
... support . Doutes d'un Provincial propofés a Meficurs Les Medicins Commif- faires . 8vo . Lyons and Paris . THIS work profeffedly contains the doubts of a provincial , who anfwers for nothing but his doubts . The difguife is well put on ...
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