The Monthly Magazine, Volume 7R. Phillips, 1799 - Art |
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... never answered the fanguine expectations of thofe who , many years ago , viewed the plant in perhaps the more favourable clime of France . In that country they grew to the height of feven or eight feet , ang and are fuccefsfully given ...
... never answered the fanguine expectations of thofe who , many years ago , viewed the plant in perhaps the more favourable clime of France . In that country they grew to the height of feven or eight feet , ang and are fuccefsfully given ...
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... never likely to be gratified . The human race has now fubfifted fome thousand years , and under all the differ- ences of climate and external circumftances that can be fuppofed incident to it . With refpect to what we call civilization ...
... never likely to be gratified . The human race has now fubfifted fome thousand years , and under all the differ- ences of climate and external circumftances that can be fuppofed incident to it . With refpect to what we call civilization ...
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... never ceased to ravage the world . It was very plaufibly argued , that fince nothing was more demonftrable than the prepon- derance of evil which a war brought even upon the fuccefsful party , as foon as na- tions fhould become capable ...
... never ceased to ravage the world . It was very plaufibly argued , that fince nothing was more demonftrable than the prepon- derance of evil which a war brought even upon the fuccefsful party , as foon as na- tions fhould become capable ...
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... never more confpicuous . From these confidera- tions I am not willing to accept the con- ceffion of a very zealous believer in the progreffion of the human race , the late Condorcet , who afferts , " that though much has been done for ...
... never more confpicuous . From these confidera- tions I am not willing to accept the con- ceffion of a very zealous believer in the progreffion of the human race , the late Condorcet , who afferts , " that though much has been done for ...
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... never attempted to bias our minds in the fmallest degree in favour of any religious fentiments , but always encouraged us to hold our- felves in fufpenfe , till in the character of enquirers , fuch subjects came properly be- fore us ...
... never attempted to bias our minds in the fmallest degree in favour of any religious fentiments , but always encouraged us to hold our- felves in fufpenfe , till in the character of enquirers , fuch subjects came properly be- fore us ...
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