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 14
... reference to that case , 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 ...
... reference to that case , 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 ...
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... reference toit , we think we perceive in this reasoning of Dr. Hales , four radical flaws . First ; when Herodotus , or any other author , not drawing a chronological scheme , but writing cursorily , mentions a round number like 400 ...
... reference toit , we think we perceive in this reasoning of Dr. Hales , four radical flaws . First ; when Herodotus , or any other author , not drawing a chronological scheme , but writing cursorily , mentions a round number like 400 ...
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... reference to the manner in which that power is exercised . The only expression , descriptive of character , which Herodotus applies to this person , is , that he was the most domineering man of all the Greeks of his time ; * clearly ...
... reference to the manner in which that power is exercised . The only expression , descriptive of character , which Herodotus applies to this person , is , that he was the most domineering man of all the Greeks of his time ; * clearly ...
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... reference to po- litical questions . It is not for us to determine how long these de- ceptions may continue to produce the consequences which we con- ceive to flow from them ; we nevertheless think it a matter of no small importance ...
... reference to po- litical questions . It is not for us to determine how long these de- ceptions may continue to produce the consequences which we con- ceive to flow from them ; we nevertheless think it a matter of no small importance ...
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... reference to the present state of the world , that he would point out some dangers from the war of which we have not been already warned , and open to us some securities in peace to which those who had written and spoken on the subject ...
... reference to the present state of the world , that he would point out some dangers from the war of which we have not been already warned , and open to us some securities in peace to which those who had written and spoken on the subject ...
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