The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 71A. Constable, 1840 |
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... doubt ; that his views , in his greatest undertakings , are liable to question ; and that the usual tendency of biographers to easy faith and * Potatoes and Tobacco . indiscriminate praise has in his case been carried to the 2 April ...
... doubt ; that his views , in his greatest undertakings , are liable to question ; and that the usual tendency of biographers to easy faith and * Potatoes and Tobacco . indiscriminate praise has in his case been carried to the 2 April ...
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... doubt ; but as it stands , it is a piece of mere task- work , executed by a practised and skilful artist no doubt , but with that economy of labour and thought which may be gen- erally expected to characterise such undertakings . His ...
... doubt ; but as it stands , it is a piece of mere task- work , executed by a practised and skilful artist no doubt , but with that economy of labour and thought which may be gen- erally expected to characterise such undertakings . His ...
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... doubt as to a fact proclaimed to all the world by Raleigh's account of it , we are entitled to hold it as vouched by them . It seems utterly incredible either that they should all alike have been deceived , or that the mistake as to ...
... doubt as to a fact proclaimed to all the world by Raleigh's account of it , we are entitled to hold it as vouched by them . It seems utterly incredible either that they should all alike have been deceived , or that the mistake as to ...
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... doubt , as of his having , like many others , been misled by those fallacious appearances which , from the very earliest notices of this region , gave it , as Humboldt tells us , an extraordinary reputation for metallic wealth . It has ...
... doubt , as of his having , like many others , been misled by those fallacious appearances which , from the very earliest notices of this region , gave it , as Humboldt tells us , an extraordinary reputation for metallic wealth . It has ...
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... doubt upon the subject ; and it is allowed by Humboldt , a most competent judge , that Raleigh in this very way collected information that lent important ' helps to the history of geography . ' Nothing , indeed , has struck us as more ...
... doubt upon the subject ; and it is allowed by Humboldt , a most competent judge , that Raleigh in this very way collected information that lent important ' helps to the history of geography . ' Nothing , indeed , has struck us as more ...
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