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... question ; but it was never published , and I suppose is not now in existence . JAS . CROSSLEY . EARLY FLEMISH ILLUSTRATIONS OF EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE . for 66 The commencement of a new volume of " NOTES AND QUERIES " affords a ...
... question ; but it was never published , and I suppose is not now in existence . JAS . CROSSLEY . EARLY FLEMISH ILLUSTRATIONS OF EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE . for 66 The commencement of a new volume of " NOTES AND QUERIES " affords a ...
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... question , I must not take a merit which does not belong to me in any thing . I may say I am but following out the original research of an accurate and accomplished antiquary , Mr. Samthell of Cork , of whose curious Olla Podrida ...
... question , I must not take a merit which does not belong to me in any thing . I may say I am but following out the original research of an accurate and accomplished antiquary , Mr. Samthell of Cork , of whose curious Olla Podrida ...
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... question . I shall conclude by committing myself to your printer's mercy , trusting that he will be too magnanimous to take notice of my remarks on the " slip - slop " printing of figures , which will sometimes occur in the best offices ...
... question . I shall conclude by committing myself to your printer's mercy , trusting that he will be too magnanimous to take notice of my remarks on the " slip - slop " printing of figures , which will sometimes occur in the best offices ...
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... question , are quoted with the names of the authors in the sixty - third number of The Adventurer , dated June 12 , 1753 , and Pope is directly accused of having copied from one of the vilest Pindaric writers , in the time of Charles II ...
... question , are quoted with the names of the authors in the sixty - third number of The Adventurer , dated June 12 , 1753 , and Pope is directly accused of having copied from one of the vilest Pindaric writers , in the time of Charles II ...
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... questions , Have we two distinct English oaks ? and , if so , Which makes the largest and best timber ? The timber used ... question pretty much where it was seventy years since . Surely it is time we knew precisely what is the tree of ...
... questions , Have we two distinct English oaks ? and , if so , Which makes the largest and best timber ? The timber used ... question pretty much where it was seventy years since . Surely it is time we knew precisely what is the tree of ...
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