The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Том 14 |
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... we shall now proceed to make extracts from their several letters , illustrated by
such remarks as suggest themselves from a ... his remark being , that “ they
sometimes weigh fourteen or fifteen pounds , but with us seldom exceed that
weight .
... we shall now proceed to make extracts from their several letters , illustrated by
such remarks as suggest themselves from a ... his remark being , that “ they
sometimes weigh fourteen or fifteen pounds , but with us seldom exceed that
weight .
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The next icthyological remark we have to make , we lament to say , again places
us in opposition to our respected author . ' “ Sprats ( says he ) I know to be
nothing else but the young fry of herrings and pilchards , both which fishes come
to ...
The next icthyological remark we have to make , we lament to say , again places
us in opposition to our respected author . ' “ Sprats ( says he ) I know to be
nothing else but the young fry of herrings and pilchards , both which fishes come
to ...
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The scoter , above - mentioned by Ray , ( or macreuse , as he also calls it ) had
been sent him by Dr . Robinson , with the following remark . “ This Parisian bird (
very famous of late ) may be no unwelcome subject , it being in Lent , and upon ...
The scoter , above - mentioned by Ray , ( or macreuse , as he also calls it ) had
been sent him by Dr . Robinson , with the following remark . “ This Parisian bird (
very famous of late ) may be no unwelcome subject , it being in Lent , and upon ...
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This minds me of a remark made to the General by a gentleman who happened ,
in the month of May following , to be looking , with him , out of a window in the
General ' s quarters , at Canterbury ; observing the troops , as they marched past
in ...
This minds me of a remark made to the General by a gentleman who happened ,
in the month of May following , to be looking , with him , out of a window in the
General ' s quarters , at Canterbury ; observing the troops , as they marched past
in ...
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It is worthy of remark , that we have very few recorded instances of authors
receiving , at that early dawn of English literature , any pecuniary remuneration
whatever . There was not then that multitude of readers who now devour the
novels of ...
It is worthy of remark , that we have very few recorded instances of authors
receiving , at that early dawn of English literature , any pecuniary remuneration
whatever . There was not then that multitude of readers who now devour the
novels of ...
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Сторінка 298 - Sophocles, and Euripides, the three tragic poets unequalled yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to write tragedy. The circumscription of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends, is according to ancient rule, and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours.
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