The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan, Volume 131792 Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, &c. |
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... former age . No man endeavoured to acquire property , when his children were not to inherit it . If one became wealthy through induftry , or other means , the arbitrary cuttings , feffings , and cofherings of his lord , foon reduced him ...
... former age . No man endeavoured to acquire property , when his children were not to inherit it . If one became wealthy through induftry , or other means , the arbitrary cuttings , feffings , and cofherings of his lord , foon reduced him ...
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... former magnitude and splendour . VI . Obfervations on the ftone - roofed chapels of the antient Irish : with the antiquities of Cafhel in the county of Tipperary . - Notwith- ftanding the boaftful tales of O'Connor and Lynch , it is ...
... former magnitude and splendour . VI . Obfervations on the ftone - roofed chapels of the antient Irish : with the antiquities of Cafhel in the county of Tipperary . - Notwith- ftanding the boaftful tales of O'Connor and Lynch , it is ...
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... former . ' The bounds of our review will not permit us to enter more largely into this article . XVI . Mifcellaneous antiquities . - It is affirmed , contrary to the opinion of colonel Vallancey , that the arms made ufe of by the Celtic ...
... former . ' The bounds of our review will not permit us to enter more largely into this article . XVI . Mifcellaneous antiquities . - It is affirmed , contrary to the opinion of colonel Vallancey , that the arms made ufe of by the Celtic ...
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... former contests were against undisciplined troops , unprovided with mas nageable artillery , and generally attacking without much fy item , either of attack or defence . It was referved for the Myforeans to put our prowefs and ...
... former contests were against undisciplined troops , unprovided with mas nageable artillery , and generally attacking without much fy item , either of attack or defence . It was referved for the Myforeans to put our prowefs and ...
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... former , of the more recent operations of our army in India against the fultan of Myfore . After a description of the battle in the neighbourhood of the enemy's capital , we are prefented with the following short ac- count of that ...
... former , of the more recent operations of our army in India against the fultan of Myfore . After a description of the battle in the neighbourhood of the enemy's capital , we are prefented with the following short ac- count of that ...
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Page 316 - I can conceive nothing so degrading and dishonourable, as an argument such as this. To hold out a menace, without ever seriously meaning to enforce it, constitutes, in common language, the true description of a bully; applied to the transactions of a nation, the disgrace is deeper, and the consequences fatal to its honour.