The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 11Philological Society of London, 1787 - English literature |
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... hands of two different pilots , who fteer by different and differing compaffes , -and with different points in view ... hand , fhould it prove an infidious , injurious , and pernicious compact to Great Bri tain , how dreadful the ...
... hands of two different pilots , who fteer by different and differing compaffes , -and with different points in view ... hand , fhould it prove an infidious , injurious , and pernicious compact to Great Bri tain , how dreadful the ...
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... hand of taxation upon them , under the fanction of this femblance of a parlia ment , or body of reprefentatives of ... hands than ever they will be able to perform . N purfuance of our promife of prefent- ing our readers with Specimens ...
... hand of taxation upon them , under the fanction of this femblance of a parlia ment , or body of reprefentatives of ... hands than ever they will be able to perform . N purfuance of our promife of prefent- ing our readers with Specimens ...
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... hand as a tranfla- tion from the Greek by William Cax- ton , the father of English printers . Ac- cordingly , on my entering the room laft night , I not only found Dr. Omicron feated at the head of the table , but also a stranger with ...
... hand as a tranfla- tion from the Greek by William Cax- ton , the father of English printers . Ac- cordingly , on my entering the room laft night , I not only found Dr. Omicron feated at the head of the table , but also a stranger with ...
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... hand - writing , and that Mr. P. lived with Mrs. Thomp- fon as his miftrefs and not as his wife , Upon the whole , Mrs. Manley's conduct in this affair fhews her to have been a base and wicked woman , capable of fuborning perjury and ...
... hand - writing , and that Mr. P. lived with Mrs. Thomp- fon as his miftrefs and not as his wife , Upon the whole , Mrs. Manley's conduct in this affair fhews her to have been a base and wicked woman , capable of fuborning perjury and ...
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... hand , I heard cries of famifh- ed indigence difperfed in the air ; on the other , the mad and bluftering exultations of barbarous and infenfible beings a- bounding with fuperfluities . All the miferies which load the human race , all ...
... hand , I heard cries of famifh- ed indigence difperfed in the air ; on the other , the mad and bluftering exultations of barbarous and infenfible beings a- bounding with fuperfluities . All the miferies which load the human race , all ...
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