The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1808 - American literature Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... had extremely hard , of a dull metallick been seen by three or four hundred colour , and of a specifick gravity persons . The stones fell in a sloconsiderably greater than that of ping direction , during the night , common marble ...
... had extremely hard , of a dull metallick been seen by three or four hundred colour , and of a specifick gravity persons . The stones fell in a sloconsiderably greater than that of ping direction , during the night , common marble ...
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... another in Artois , about ten years after the thing hapand the third in the Cotentin . pened , began to operate some These were all externally of the change upon the common opinions very appearance ; and relating to such matters .
... another in Artois , about ten years after the thing hapand the third in the Cotentin . pened , began to operate some These were all externally of the change upon the common opinions very appearance ; and relating to such matters .
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... or lying loose capable of convincing the most upon its surface - are circum- scrupulous inquirer , that the bodies stances perfectly well authenticat . in question have a common origin , ed in these reports ; and , when and that we ...
... or lying loose capable of convincing the most upon its surface - are circum- scrupulous inquirer , that the bodies stances perfectly well authenticat . in question have a common origin , ed in these reports ; and , when and that we ...
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This by Gassendi ( who saw it fall ) was consideration will , in part at least , 14 , common marble being 11 ; enable us to account for the ap- and , taking the specifick gravity of parent discrepancy between the marble to that of water ...
This by Gassendi ( who saw it fall ) was consideration will , in part at least , 14 , common marble being 11 ; enable us to account for the ap- and , taking the specifick gravity of parent discrepancy between the marble to that of water ...
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No man lical criticism has received from would read his Homer or his Virthe various labours of the learned gil in a common sixpenny edition in the last half century , and more picked up at a stall , if he could use especially from the ...
No man lical criticism has received from would read his Homer or his Virthe various labours of the learned gil in a common sixpenny edition in the last half century , and more picked up at a stall , if he could use especially from the ...
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