The Quarterly Review, Volume 36William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1827 - English literature |
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... soil has , no doubt , detracted , in some degree , from its profit . - We give one example ; it would be easy to give a hundred . Every man who reflects at all upon this subject must imme- diately perceive , that in many most essential ...
... soil has , no doubt , detracted , in some degree , from its profit . - We give one example ; it would be easy to give a hundred . Every man who reflects at all upon this subject must imme- diately perceive , that in many most essential ...
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... soil can properly be described as absolutely barren : it is now unproductive solely because its owners may be ignorant of the plants adapted to its nature , or of the manures which would call its powers into activity ; * but the most ...
... soil can properly be described as absolutely barren : it is now unproductive solely because its owners may be ignorant of the plants adapted to its nature , or of the manures which would call its powers into activity ; * but the most ...
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... soils - like the charlatan before whose solitary nostrum all diseases must give way . A Norfolk agriculturist , occupying a sandy soil , in a climate where perhaps the fall of rain does not exceed twenty inches per annum , makes a ...
... soils - like the charlatan before whose solitary nostrum all diseases must give way . A Norfolk agriculturist , occupying a sandy soil , in a climate where perhaps the fall of rain does not exceed twenty inches per annum , makes a ...
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No LXXI | 1 |
The Poetical Works of John Milton with Notes of | 29 |
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone Founder of the United | 61 |
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