British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 11F. and C. Rivington, 1798 |
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... attempt excufes , in fome measure , the defects in the performance of it . Another writer extends to the prefent age in general his collection of Biographi cal , Literary , and Political Anecdotest , a book rather of amufement than ...
... attempt excufes , in fome measure , the defects in the performance of it . Another writer extends to the prefent age in general his collection of Biographi cal , Literary , and Political Anecdotest , a book rather of amufement than ...
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... attempt . Nor must we omit An Appeal to the Head and Heart of every Man and Woman in Great Britains ; Sound an Alarm ; Democratic Principles illuftrated by Example ; Unite or Fall ** , or Mr. Aufrere's Warning to Britonstt . All these ...
... attempt . Nor must we omit An Appeal to the Head and Heart of every Man and Woman in Great Britains ; Sound an Alarm ; Democratic Principles illuftrated by Example ; Unite or Fall ** , or Mr. Aufrere's Warning to Britonstt . All these ...
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... attempts to throw new lights on the caufes or give efficacy to the remedies of difeafe : while the knowledge of the animal œconomy in general is progreffively improving . In our prefent volume we have recorded the efforts of Dr. Bree to ...
... attempts to throw new lights on the caufes or give efficacy to the remedies of difeafe : while the knowledge of the animal œconomy in general is progreffively improving . In our prefent volume we have recorded the efforts of Dr. Bree to ...
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... attempt that we have lately feen , though it has never tried its fortune on the ftage . We fhall pass over alfo the clafs of Novels , with which , for the fake of one or two exceptions , and those of no tranfcendent excellence , it ...
... attempt that we have lately feen , though it has never tried its fortune on the ftage . We fhall pass over alfo the clafs of Novels , with which , for the fake of one or two exceptions , and those of no tranfcendent excellence , it ...
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... attempt to account ib . for the infidelity of ―― a word or two in vin- dication of the university of Oxford from the afperfions of ib . Gierig's Plinii panegyricus Tra- jano dictus 220 Gifford's fecond letter to Mr. Er- fkine 188 ...
... attempt to account ib . for the infidelity of ―― a word or two in vin- dication of the university of Oxford from the afperfions of ib . Gierig's Plinii panegyricus Tra- jano dictus 220 Gifford's fecond letter to Mr. Er- fkine 188 ...
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