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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... 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 to it , 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 to it , 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 poli- tical questions . It is not for us to determine how long these decep- tions may continue to produce the consequences which we conceive to flow from them ; we nevertheless think it a matter of no small importance ...
... reference to poli- tical questions . It is not for us to determine how long these decep- tions may continue to produce the consequences which we conceive to flow from them ; we nevertheless think it a matter of no small importance ...
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... reference to the first of these words , it may be remarked , that the use of abstract nouns , for denoting those ideas which were before usually ex- pressed by verbs , is one of the surest tests of declining latinity . Nouns of this ...
... reference to the first of these words , it may be remarked , that the use of abstract nouns , for denoting those ideas which were before usually ex- pressed by verbs , is one of the surest tests of declining latinity . Nouns of this ...
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