Monthly Review; Or New Literary JournalR. Griffiths., 1791 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... appears to me fo well founded as to merit more ample investigation . A few years after the first appearance of the Portuguese in India , the dominion of the Mameluks was overturned by the irrefiftible power of the Turkish arms , and ...
... appears to me fo well founded as to merit more ample investigation . A few years after the first appearance of the Portuguese in India , the dominion of the Mameluks was overturned by the irrefiftible power of the Turkish arms , and ...
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... appears to be very inconfider- able ; the whole produce of twenty - eight reeds , from five to seven feet long , not much exceeding two drachms : but it muft be added , that fix others had been selected and fet apart out of the whole ...
... appears to be very inconfider- able ; the whole produce of twenty - eight reeds , from five to seven feet long , not much exceeding two drachms : but it muft be added , that fix others had been selected and fet apart out of the whole ...
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... appear for a moment or two , till filled up by the furrounding multitude . - The common black ants had their nefts about ... appears fcarcely credible ; but , on making the experiment myself , I found it literally true . I laid fire , as ...
... appear for a moment or two , till filled up by the furrounding multitude . - The common black ants had their nefts about ... appears fcarcely credible ; but , on making the experiment myself , I found it literally true . I laid fire , as ...
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... appears that thefe infects can neither multiply nor fubfift , but under , or among , fuch roots as afford protection ... appear than rofes , and where a beautiful flower often lofes the admiration to which it is entitled , in confequence ...
... appears that thefe infects can neither multiply nor fubfift , but under , or among , fuch roots as afford protection ... appear than rofes , and where a beautiful flower often lofes the admiration to which it is entitled , in confequence ...
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... appears from many experiments that I have made , but the detail of which would be tedious and not in- ftru & tive . Suffice it , that if the serum of the blood be cleared of all extraneous matter , the coagulable lymph be alfo cleared ...
... appears from many experiments that I have made , but the detail of which would be tedious and not in- ftru & tive . Suffice it , that if the serum of the blood be cleared of all extraneous matter , the coagulable lymph be alfo cleared ...
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