The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 9J. Murray, 1787 - Curiosities and wonders |
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... fhall go fill further , relying on the accuracy of your judgment to teftify every thing you may find too fubtile or too fpeculative in my idea . I fhall afk you , then , Whether , under the belief of poffeffing the moft perfect ...
... fhall go fill further , relying on the accuracy of your judgment to teftify every thing you may find too fubtile or too fpeculative in my idea . I fhall afk you , then , Whether , under the belief of poffeffing the moft perfect ...
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... fhall obferve then , that , to know to what precife point , and on what principle , you should ad- mit the arts and sciences in your nation , it is neceffary first to under- stand its natural tendency ; for we may direct the course of ...
... fhall obferve then , that , to know to what precife point , and on what principle , you should ad- mit the arts and sciences in your nation , it is neceffary first to under- stand its natural tendency ; for we may direct the course of ...
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... , and the extent of his excurfions . He indeed appears to be un grand Charlatan ; which expreffion we fhall leave him to tranflate . ART . * By ART . II . Tracts , Mathematical and A Chaftellux's Travels in North - America .
... , and the extent of his excurfions . He indeed appears to be un grand Charlatan ; which expreffion we fhall leave him to tranflate . ART . * By ART . II . Tracts , Mathematical and A Chaftellux's Travels in North - America .
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... fhall proceed to that which takes up the larger part of this volume , and which the author gives as the most important in this publication , viz . his New Experiments in Artillery in the years 1783 , 4 , 5 . After briefly premifing ...
... fhall proceed to that which takes up the larger part of this volume , and which the author gives as the most important in this publication , viz . his New Experiments in Artillery in the years 1783 , 4 , 5 . After briefly premifing ...
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... fhall your Lordship find , In your extended view Of human life , or human kind , A case so odd , so new ! Thus , ' mid the very frost of Time , When ardour dies away , To glow with all the rage of rhyme , As ' twere the month of May ...
... fhall your Lordship find , In your extended view Of human life , or human kind , A case so odd , so new ! Thus , ' mid the very frost of Time , When ardour dies away , To glow with all the rage of rhyme , As ' twere the month of May ...
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