The Edinburgh Review, Volume 10A. and C. Black, 1807 - English literature |
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... facts which imperiously call upon us to take security against them , we refer our readers to the following passages of the work now before us . Though his threats of invasion have been suspended , not so his naval preparations . He has ...
... facts which imperiously call upon us to take security against them , we refer our readers to the following passages of the work now before us . Though his threats of invasion have been suspended , not so his naval preparations . He has ...
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... fact is now pretty generally admitted : and the theory does not lye very deep . No man can win a place , who does not deserve to occupy it ; but he may succeed to it , without any such qualifi- cation . A man cannot make a fortune ...
... fact is now pretty generally admitted : and the theory does not lye very deep . No man can win a place , who does not deserve to occupy it ; but he may succeed to it , without any such qualifi- cation . A man cannot make a fortune ...
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... fact , that it would be employed as soon as it made good its pretensions . It is by this talent , and by this enterprize , that France has hitherto gone on conquering and to conquer , we are afraid , unless the talent and the enterprize ...
... fact , that it would be employed as soon as it made good its pretensions . It is by this talent , and by this enterprize , that France has hitherto gone on conquering and to conquer , we are afraid , unless the talent and the enterprize ...
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... fact , which we conceive to admit of no dispute , viz . that this country , though containing , in the mass of its population , a far greater proportion of intelligence and just principle , than any o- ther that ever existed , has not ...
... fact , which we conceive to admit of no dispute , viz . that this country , though containing , in the mass of its population , a far greater proportion of intelligence and just principle , than any o- ther that ever existed , has not ...
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... fact , we are fafer from the power of France by war , than we fhould be by peace ; that war is truly a defenfive measure with us ; and that , to relinquifh the advantages which its continuance gives us over the enemy , would be to fall ...
... fact , we are fafer from the power of France by war , than we fhould be by peace ; that war is truly a defenfive measure with us ; and that , to relinquifh the advantages which its continuance gives us over the enemy , would be to fall ...
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