The Quarterly Review, Том 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 |
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... considerable portion of the intelligence of his subjects from political inquiries ; partly as it may place him in a popular and engaging point of view ; and , above all , as it may surround him with able and willing heralds of his fame ...
... considerable portion of the intelligence of his subjects from political inquiries ; partly as it may place him in a popular and engaging point of view ; and , above all , as it may surround him with able and willing heralds of his fame ...
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... considerable share of their labour ; but the fact is otherwise . Amidst the many splendid works , of a scientific or descriptive nature , poured forth from time to time by the Pa- risian press , though there are not a few , particularly ...
... considerable share of their labour ; but the fact is otherwise . Amidst the many splendid works , of a scientific or descriptive nature , poured forth from time to time by the Pa- risian press , though there are not a few , particularly ...
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... Considerably more is comprehended under this title than it probably was intended to convey ; nor , indeed , is there a doubt that the principle in question had been partially em- ployed by modern chronologers antecedently to the time of ...
... Considerably more is comprehended under this title than it probably was intended to convey ; nor , indeed , is there a doubt that the principle in question had been partially em- ployed by modern chronologers antecedently to the time of ...
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... considerable confusion of ideas ; and that , while he has bestowed much labour in proving what never was controverted , he has begged the whole of the question really at issue . When it is affirmed , by the the followers of Newton , to ...
... considerable confusion of ideas ; and that , while he has bestowed much labour in proving what never was controverted , he has begged the whole of the question really at issue . When it is affirmed , by the the followers of Newton , to ...
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... considerably below thirty years . Otherwise , the case may be considered as nearly parallel with that of the Spartan kings of the race of Eurysthenes , of whom sixteen , as we are told , reigned in a direct line . Each case is uncommon ...
... considerably below thirty years . Otherwise , the case may be considered as nearly parallel with that of the Spartan kings of the race of Eurysthenes , of whom sixteen , as we are told , reigned in a direct line . Each case is uncommon ...
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