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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... attention of the classical scholar , have no positive political aspect whatsoever . Upon this field , therefore , we should have been apt to imagine that the French sçavans , zealous as they have undoubtedly shewn themselves in the ...
... attention of the classical scholar , have no positive political aspect whatsoever . Upon this field , therefore , we should have been apt to imagine that the French sçavans , zealous as they have undoubtedly shewn themselves in the ...
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... attention . Now it occurred to Newton , that the propriety of the allowance of three reigns to a century , which is claimed for all these concur- rent successions , finds no support or countenance throughout the compass of ascertained ...
... attention . Now it occurred to Newton , that the propriety of the allowance of three reigns to a century , which is claimed for all these concur- rent successions , finds no support or countenance throughout the compass of ascertained ...
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... attention to the numeral dates recorded in the extant copies of ancient authors ; and reduce to the least possible compass , and to one single class , every other difficulty by which the information contained , in those authors is ...
... attention to the numeral dates recorded in the extant copies of ancient authors ; and reduce to the least possible compass , and to one single class , every other difficulty by which the information contained , in those authors is ...
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... attention to the historic merits , pro- perly so called , of M. Clavier , there are two short passages , together with a note , which appear to us to call for some distinct animadversion , and this , as involving higher interests than ...
... attention to the historic merits , pro- perly so called , of M. Clavier , there are two short passages , together with a note , which appear to us to call for some distinct animadversion , and this , as involving higher interests than ...
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... attention more powerfully than any thing which we have lately perused . It is dif- ficult to adopt any certain rule of criticism with respect to a pro- duction so anomalous . In other cases we perceive the mark at which the author has ...
... attention more powerfully than any thing which we have lately perused . It is dif- ficult to adopt any certain rule of criticism with respect to a pro- duction so anomalous . In other cases we perceive the mark at which the author has ...
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