The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Том 81Archibald Constable and Company, 1818 |
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... given to conduct them to labour ; their various employments were assigned to them , and they were obliged to set out . saw them with downcast heads , and 1819. ] Attempt to Surprise Edinburgh Castle in 1715 . 1819 21 Political State of ...
... given to conduct them to labour ; their various employments were assigned to them , and they were obliged to set out . saw them with downcast heads , and 1819. ] Attempt to Surprise Edinburgh Castle in 1715 . 1819 21 Political State of ...
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... given , too , under great dis- advantages in the feebleness of a trans- lation , -yet under every disadvantage , ( for the power of the original may be partly guessed at , even amidst the defects of a version , ) it may fair- ly be ...
... given , too , under great dis- advantages in the feebleness of a trans- lation , -yet under every disadvantage , ( for the power of the original may be partly guessed at , even amidst the defects of a version , ) it may fair- ly be ...
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... given in place of the real exhibition , although frequently fine pieces of description , have yet but little of a dramatic charac- ter . What then can be more admira- sentation of a murder not yet execut- bly conceived , than the lively ...
... given in place of the real exhibition , although frequently fine pieces of description , have yet but little of a dramatic charac- ter . What then can be more admira- sentation of a murder not yet execut- bly conceived , than the lively ...
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... given by Pontoppidan are circumstantial , and evidently delivered with perfect sin- cerity ; so that every candid reader must be convinced , that they had some foundation in fact . Perhaps the ridiculous fables so long circulat- ed ...
... given by Pontoppidan are circumstantial , and evidently delivered with perfect sin- cerity ; so that every candid reader must be convinced , that they had some foundation in fact . Perhaps the ridiculous fables so long circulat- ed ...
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... given by Pon- toppidan of the sea - snake of Norway ; and he particularly states , that its progressive motion was rapid , and ap- peared to depend on an undulatory movement up and down . Its length he estimated at 70 or 80 feet . It ...
... given by Pon- toppidan of the sea - snake of Norway ; and he particularly states , that its progressive motion was rapid , and ap- peared to depend on an undulatory movement up and down . Its length he estimated at 70 or 80 feet . It ...
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