The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 23R. Griffiths, 1760 - Books |
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... Death , 408 327 414 243 ANCY to John , NELSON'S Univerfal Bible , NA NEWCOMB's Retired Penitent , 330 NEWTON'S Six Difcourfes , 335 NORFOLK Militia , Plan of Difci- pline for , Part III . 353 NOSEGAY and Simile for the Reviewers , 86 Ο ...
... Death , 408 327 414 243 ANCY to John , NELSON'S Univerfal Bible , NA NEWCOMB's Retired Penitent , 330 NEWTON'S Six Difcourfes , 335 NORFOLK Militia , Plan of Difci- pline for , Part III . 353 NOSEGAY and Simile for the Reviewers , 86 Ο ...
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... death , when they had paffed over Jordan . This mountain is called Ebal in all the Hebrew copies , both in Deut . and in the correspondent paffage in Joshua , where we have an account of the execution of thefe orders . It has ...
... death , when they had paffed over Jordan . This mountain is called Ebal in all the Hebrew copies , both in Deut . and in the correspondent paffage in Joshua , where we have an account of the execution of thefe orders . It has ...
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... death . Here again , our Author prefents us with quibble and fo- phiftry , instead of found reafon and argument ; for admitting that the people were not , of themfelves , of fufficient capacity or weight to restore the ballance of the ...
... death . Here again , our Author prefents us with quibble and fo- phiftry , instead of found reafon and argument ; for admitting that the people were not , of themfelves , of fufficient capacity or weight to restore the ballance of the ...
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... death , a confeffion in his name , taken clandeftinely , without mentioning any perfon who was prefent when it was made ; is privately fent to London , and given to Cecil , ac- cufing the Queen in the blackeft terms , and extolling Mur ...
... death , a confeffion in his name , taken clandeftinely , without mentioning any perfon who was prefent when it was made ; is privately fent to London , and given to Cecil , ac- cufing the Queen in the blackeft terms , and extolling Mur ...
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Page 209 - Her voice came over the sea. Arindal my son descended from the hill ; rough in the spoils of the chase.
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Page 420 - Americans are adverse to war, because they have a great deal to lose; they take no care to manage the Indians from a belief that they stand in no need of them. The French youth, for very different reasons, abominate the thoughts of peace, and live well with the natives, whose esteem they easily gain in time of war, and their friendship at all...
Page 209 - The oar is stopped at once; he panted on the rock and expired. What is thy grief, O Daura, when round thy feet is poured thy brother's blood! the boat is broken in twain. Armar plunges into the sea, to rescue his Daura, or die. Sudden a blast from the hill came over the waves.