The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 35Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1802 - Books |
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... nature , abridge . Our author , from the terms monsoon and tuffoon , is led to examine some other appro- priate appellations of different places ; and , as these are Per- sian , he concludes that the Persians were the chief navigators ...
... nature , abridge . Our author , from the terms monsoon and tuffoon , is led to examine some other appro- priate appellations of different places ; and , as these are Per- sian , he concludes that the Persians were the chief navigators ...
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... nature co - operated in the production of this catastrophe ? Such a question , when the morals of mankind are the object of consideration , is not foreign to the province of history . I shall endeavour to answer it . • When Lewis XVI ...
... nature co - operated in the production of this catastrophe ? Such a question , when the morals of mankind are the object of consideration , is not foreign to the province of history . I shall endeavour to answer it . • When Lewis XVI ...
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... Nature suffers violence by repeatedly producing new generations from the same blood ; while , on the contrary , she ... nature , like the last shoots of those dynasties of which history recites the decrepitude ; while nature is ...
... Nature suffers violence by repeatedly producing new generations from the same blood ; while , on the contrary , she ... nature , like the last shoots of those dynasties of which history recites the decrepitude ; while nature is ...
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... nature of the latter was such , that , notwithstanding an official peace , the intestine war of louis - d'ors and guineas was con- stantly carrying on . Peace had been signed in 1714 ; yet France , who had not forgotten the good ...
... nature of the latter was such , that , notwithstanding an official peace , the intestine war of louis - d'ors and guineas was con- stantly carrying on . Peace had been signed in 1714 ; yet France , who had not forgotten the good ...
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... natural philosophy , several of the greatest geniuses seem to have employed themselves on the study of nature , with no view but to deprive the French Pliny of his fame . Contradiction in this in- stance led to truth ; and the Genevese ...
... natural philosophy , several of the greatest geniuses seem to have employed themselves on the study of nature , with no view but to deprive the French Pliny of his fame . Contradiction in this in- stance led to truth ; and the Genevese ...
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