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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... former task , we here bid adieu , for a short interval , to all our idler , lighter , and fairer readers , intreating them to wind round the base of the rugged ascent which they be- hold us about to climb , and anticipating a happy ...
... former task , we here bid adieu , for a short interval , to all our idler , lighter , and fairer readers , intreating them to wind round the base of the rugged ascent which they be- hold us about to climb , and anticipating a happy ...
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... ( 240 + 767 + 80 = ) 1087 ; in almost ex act consonance with the result of the former calculation . This simple case sufficiently illustrates the principle ; of which , Clavier Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . FEB.
... ( 240 + 767 + 80 = ) 1087 ; in almost ex act consonance with the result of the former calculation . This simple case sufficiently illustrates the principle ; of which , Clavier Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . FEB.
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... former by con- siderably more than three times the same interval . Besides this , the system of M. Clavier is liable , and in an aggravated degree , to some of the identical objections which Newton , with whatever conclusiveness , urged ...
... former by con- siderably more than three times the same interval . Besides this , the system of M. Clavier is liable , and in an aggravated degree , to some of the identical objections which Newton , with whatever conclusiveness , urged ...
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... former.ne Next , it is contended that some long minorities actually occur in the history of the Spartan kings ; on which it may be enough to observe , that the general rule furnished by experience for the average length of reigns ...
... former.ne Next , it is contended that some long minorities actually occur in the history of the Spartan kings ; on which it may be enough to observe , that the general rule furnished by experience for the average length of reigns ...
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... former , M. Clavier expresses himself with a con- fidence , which , if we may judge from some occasional symptoms in his style , would not have been natural to him , were it not per- fectly inseparable from the French character . " Ce ...
... former , M. Clavier expresses himself with a con- fidence , which , if we may judge from some occasional symptoms in his style , would not have been natural to him , were it not per- fectly inseparable from the French character . " Ce ...
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