The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots magazine, Volumes 15-181825 |
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Page 36
... reason , a pru- dent man would avoid falling in love , as he would shun the contagion of an infectious fever . He who resolved to marry , would look around him for a woman of plain common sense , of a good , or at least respectable ...
... reason , a pru- dent man would avoid falling in love , as he would shun the contagion of an infectious fever . He who resolved to marry , would look around him for a woman of plain common sense , of a good , or at least respectable ...
Page 52
... reason to sup- pose , that while various processes are going on at the surface of our earth , and particularly during the action of evaporation , that some water is de- composed . If this process really goes on , it must be allowed that ...
... reason to sup- pose , that while various processes are going on at the surface of our earth , and particularly during the action of evaporation , that some water is de- composed . If this process really goes on , it must be allowed that ...
Page 84
... reason , -not one single poetical image , -not one scintillation of ge- nius , nor one idea worth remember- ing ! " " But where , " said Mr Pear- son , smiling , where , Mr Batty , would you , in that elegant poem , meet with twenty ...
... reason , -not one single poetical image , -not one scintillation of ge- nius , nor one idea worth remember- ing ! " " But where , " said Mr Pear- son , smiling , where , Mr Batty , would you , in that elegant poem , meet with twenty ...
Page 88
... reason to sup- pose that the libraries of religious houses in Scotland were more ample or valuable than those of England . In an inventory of the effects belong- ing to the cathedral church of Glas- gow , which is preserved in the Char ...
... reason to sup- pose that the libraries of religious houses in Scotland were more ample or valuable than those of England . In an inventory of the effects belong- ing to the cathedral church of Glas- gow , which is preserved in the Char ...
Page 133
... reason . Nay , whole syllables were some- times lopped off , to the manifest injury both of etymology and perspicuity ; thus , they sometimes wrote rabo for arrhabo , conia for ciconia , momem for momentum , dein * ( which still remains ) ...
... reason . Nay , whole syllables were some- times lopped off , to the manifest injury both of etymology and perspicuity ; thus , they sometimes wrote rabo for arrhabo , conia for ciconia , momem for momentum , dein * ( which still remains ) ...
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