The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19Theodore Foster, 1819 |
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... English Poets . Delivered at the Surrey Institu- tion . By William Hazlitt 424 X. 1. Considerations respecting Cambridge , more particularly rela- ting to its Botanical Professorship . By Sir James Edward Smith , M. D. F. R. S. & c ...
... English Poets . Delivered at the Surrey Institu- tion . By William Hazlitt 424 X. 1. Considerations respecting Cambridge , more particularly rela- ting to its Botanical Professorship . By Sir James Edward Smith , M. D. F. R. S. & c ...
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... English travel- ler is invited . Evelyn was much amused with the treasures at St. Denis , which contained at that time some of the most remarkable relics , true and false , any where in existence : among the latter were a likeness of ...
... English travel- ler is invited . Evelyn was much amused with the treasures at St. Denis , which contained at that time some of the most remarkable relics , true and false , any where in existence : among the latter were a likeness of ...
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... English gentleman , that he thought Paris was the strongest town in Christendom , for he took strong in that sense as we do in England when we say such a man hath a strong breath . These things considered , it could not but be an ...
... English gentleman , that he thought Paris was the strongest town in Christendom , for he took strong in that sense as we do in England when we say such a man hath a strong breath . These things considered , it could not but be an ...
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... English ship bound for the Holy Land , he determined to visit Syria , Egypt , and Turkey , engaged for his passage , and laid in his sea - stock ; but to his great mortification the vessel was pressed for the service of the state to ...
... English ship bound for the Holy Land , he determined to visit Syria , Egypt , and Turkey , engaged for his passage , and laid in his sea - stock ; but to his great mortification the vessel was pressed for the service of the state to ...
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... English climate . He speaks with great delight of a large walk in some gardens of the Grand Duke of Florence , at the sides whereof several slender streams of water gush out of pipes concealed under- neath , that interchangeably fall ...
... English climate . He speaks with great delight of a large walk in some gardens of the Grand Duke of Florence , at the sides whereof several slender streams of water gush out of pipes concealed under- neath , that interchangeably fall ...
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