The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 - English literature |
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Page 11
... already been observed , that the circumstance of a long succession of sovereigns , proceeding according to the course of li- neal descent , as in itself it is remarkable , so is rendered considera- bly improbable , when asserted of two ...
... already been observed , that the circumstance of a long succession of sovereigns , proceeding according to the course of li- neal descent , as in itself it is remarkable , so is rendered considera- bly improbable , when asserted of two ...
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... already noticed , some auxi- liary explanations have been offered of the pretended length of reigns in early Greece , and especially in the two Spartan lines . On behalf of the latter , it is in the first place alleged , that the kings ...
... already noticed , some auxi- liary explanations have been offered of the pretended length of reigns in early Greece , and especially in the two Spartan lines . On behalf of the latter , it is in the first place alleged , that the kings ...
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... already been shewn ; and we fear that the explanations no more gain strength or proba- bility by recurring in so many additional instances , than the fraction of an unit gains magnitude by being repeatedly multiplied into itself . It is ...
... already been shewn ; and we fear that the explanations no more gain strength or proba- bility by recurring in so many additional instances , than the fraction of an unit gains magnitude by being repeatedly multiplied into itself . It is ...
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... already considered ; but some other branches of the subject , he treats with equal fairness and good sense . We would especially instance his reasonings concerning the age of Ho- mer ; which , with one exception too trifling to be ...
... already considered ; but some other branches of the subject , he treats with equal fairness and good sense . We would especially instance his reasonings concerning the age of Ho- mer ; which , with one exception too trifling to be ...
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... already distinctly admitted . Our chief concern , however , is with the mode of reasoning by which M. Clavier in- fers the latter of these facts from the former ; and , as the inference seems to us to involve an error in political ...
... already distinctly admitted . Our chief concern , however , is with the mode of reasoning by which M. Clavier in- fers the latter of these facts from the former ; and , as the inference seems to us to involve an error in political ...
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