The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 24A. Constable, 1814 |
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Page 101
... object than to restore the land to the pro- prietor without deterioration - an object , however , which in many cases might be better secured , by entering into a new lease two or three years before the expiration of the current term ...
... object than to restore the land to the pro- prietor without deterioration - an object , however , which in many cases might be better secured , by entering into a new lease two or three years before the expiration of the current term ...
Page 119
... object ; when by long continued and unwearied exertions , after repeated disappointments , and by a perseverance without example , he had , at last at a mature period of his life , accomplished the object to which he had devoted all the ...
... object ; when by long continued and unwearied exertions , after repeated disappointments , and by a perseverance without example , he had , at last at a mature period of his life , accomplished the object to which he had devoted all the ...
Page 147
... objects which struck their imagination ; to represent things that were complex , by putting a part for a whole ... object is put for the whole , are called curiological ; and those in which one thing is put for another , on account ...
... objects which struck their imagination ; to represent things that were complex , by putting a part for a whole ... object is put for the whole , are called curiological ; and those in which one thing is put for another , on account ...
Contents
The Excursion being a portion of the Recluse | 1 |
On the Light of the Cassegrainian Telescope com | 31 |
Select Passages of the Writings of St Chrysostom | 58 |
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